Last November, Jan DiCintio at Daisy Janie sent the East Bay Modern Quilt Guild bolts of prints from the organic Shades of Grey line and challenged us to come up with cool stuff. I love the print designs. They're so mod and organic (in every sense). I supplemented with roughly equal grey yardage from my stash, plus a bunch of red prints and solids.
The design has a red pop in the middle that dissolves into light greys, then darker greys. But don't get to attached to all that red -- I'll be slicing it to ribbons as soon as I finish a lone star patchwork for reverse applique. This is my next stencil quilt, and it's not going to be quite as cuddly as the giraffes.
I won't have the stencil done for presentation at our Tuesday meeting, but I'm looking forward to showing this work in progress.
Holy Cannoli!! My heart just skipped a beat!! Incredible execution - I can't stop blurring my eyes on purpose to really take it in! Thank you, thank you!!!!
ReplyDeleteSure looking forward to seeing what this becomes. :D
ReplyDeleteVery cool! Look forward to seeing what you do with this!
ReplyDeleteI love it Dan, grey is my favourite colour at the moment and it looks fabulous with the red. xo
ReplyDeleteDang! Very cool and unique. I can't wait to see your stencil spin on it. : )
ReplyDeleteSo interesting already; can't wait to see where you take it.
ReplyDeleteI didn't expect something with that red to be cuddly! Can't wait to see what you create.
ReplyDeleteI like it just how it is, but your hint that it won't be cuddly makes me think of a street artist I met recently and his un-cuddly red and grey (and black and white) art: http://www.flickr.com/groups/angrywoebotsfans/
ReplyDeleteI look forward to seeing where YOU take your quilt. :-)
Wow Dan this is going to be amazing and your are so innovative and visionary and talented for all my snide twitter joking. Can't wait to see what you do with this. Skulls maybe? Zombies?
ReplyDeleteI love these fabrics - can't wait to see what you are planning
ReplyDeleteOh this is so very beautiful!
ReplyDeleteDying to know where are you going with this? Somewhere fascinating no doubt!
ReplyDeleteLove this and can't wait to see part 2!
ReplyDeleteShe sent you guys bolts of Shades of Grey!!! I would have fainted :)
well i love it at this stage, so i can't wait to see where you will take it from here?.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see what becomes of this... The red to grey is just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteO_ooo, what are you up to now Mr. Rouse? This looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteI'll be watching for this one! Can't wait....
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh you are 110%. I would be perfectly happy to make a quilt like this, and it's just step one for you! Your style is so intriguing... Looking forward to step 2
ReplyDeletethat quilt rocks! Gray and red is so pretty together, well another quilt I must copy! ha,ha Thanks for giving us a peek, can't wait to see it quilted.
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