Monday, June 25, 2012

Do Something - For Adina

A dear friend of mine was assaulted in April of this year. While the circumstances were horrific, it was compounded by the fact that she was so far away from me.  I felt compelled to do something...anything...but what could I do?

I pulled out my copy of Tonya Ricucci's book Word Play and started to organize bins of scraps and strings.

I did some color planning using Microsoft Excel.  This helped me to best plan the transitions from one color to the next.  I then made a list of action words that I either wanted her to do or to do myself.  Using Kona White as the typeface color and I got right to work.

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Things progressed quite nicely an, due to the size of he quilt, I had to use my bed as a design wall.  Here is the quilt without the borders.

Do Something!
It was an interesting process and my first improvisational quilt.  About 4 words in, it started to get really fun and I've got lots of compliments to everyone I've shown it to.  I still have a fair amount of work to do on the quilt so that I can enter it into this year's NJ State Fair.

What'ya think? ~ksp
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5 comments:

  1. Donna LeeJune 26, 2012 at 8:08 AM

    I think it's gorgeous! And a perfect reminder for your friend that there are good things/people in the world.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 19, 2012 at 10:08 PM

    So beautiful and inspiring! A highlight of tonight's meeting for me. It was great to see you.

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  3. AmyJuly 20, 2012 at 9:53 PM

    Beautiful! Amazing! Inspiring! I cant even tell you how much this quilt moved me.
    Lovely work, kelli.

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  4. Tonya RicucciJuly 30, 2012 at 3:02 PM

    woohoo, beautiful wonderful quilt!. So sorry that your friend was hurt and so far away - that's awful. but it spurred you on to make a fabulous quilt. congrats!

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  5. AndreaAugust 10, 2012 at 3:53 PM

    It's gorgeous and I'm sure your friend will appreciate all the love you put into it xx

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