Flexibility can mean many things and in a world where traditional architecture was full of straight lines and rectangles, Antoni Gaudi broke all the rules with his curvaceous organic designs giving his buildings a life of movement and flexibility.

This quilt is a section of a mosaic platform at Parc Guell in Barcelona. Gaudi often decorated his surfaces with beautiful mosaics which added to the movement as well as the illusion of flexibility.

The original image was cropped and then manipulated in an IOS App called Vector Q. The same original image was then filtered into a transparent plotter image to create the shapes for the overlay

Fabric was painted in shades of blue and each piece was fused with Mistyfuse.
Each shape of the manipulated image was traced onto parchment paper and then ironed onto the back of the relevant fabric. They were then cut out and fused onto a background fabric or overlapped with other pieces. Fiddly & time consuming but quite enjoyable.

The overlay shapes were cut with a Silhouette Cameo 4 digital cutter out of painted Pellon 830 which was also fused with Mistyfuse. Tracing paper was overlayed onto the background fabric to place the individual shapes in the correct (or nearly correct) position.

Once everything was in it’s place I quilted the shapes and background on my Bernina Q20.

On The Edge

27″ x 40″ (100cm x 68cm)

Hand painted and dyed fabrics.
Raw edge applique
Digitally cut overlay
Machine quilted