about style

I've been working in Pamela Allen's online class, about style. Her class will help me to develop my own personal style. The first lesson involved choosing a work of an artist and roughly interpreting it in fabric. Then, using the same palette, making a small quilt that epitomizes my style.

I chose Auguste Herbin's Corsican Landscape for this exercise. I used a picture I had taken at Asilomar, California as my guide, and made a piece I call Pelican. He isn't stitched yet, but I think I will finish Pelican.

Mimi: an art quilt made about my mother

I took a  course with Pamela Allen at Asilomar, and made a self portrait (the one I use as my picture on this blog)  I decided I wanted to do a series, featuring my mother and grandmother.  The first one I finished is entitled Mimi, about my mother Constance Eagan Mason, called by her grandchildren Mimi.  Mimi had white hair, and very blue eyes.  She sewed a lot for my and my sister, as well as herself.  I made her a charm bracelet of sewing patterns.  She is holding a purse that she made to go with one of her outfits sewed for a cruise.  She also holds one of her curlers--I have a whole boxful.  Her earrings were made by my Dad when he was recovering from surgery.  The locket contains his college graduation picture.  I put a seascape on the quilt because they retired to Florida.  It has some tiny shells that I picked up on the beach.