"Treasure in eartly vessels"

Red Septemer is a design experiment for a project I am planning. It looks good and very promising. It is for a liturgical vestment - a stole and chasuble.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 10:09

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"One out of nine"

The August page refused to come out and play. I experimented with wrinkling the fabric, then ironed interfacing on the back so it would stay that way before sewing the pieces together. I was a bit curious to see how quilting would turn out on all this fabric. Found out that less is more. The title derives from this page being the only one I don't like. It lacks design. Out of nine journal pages, only one coming short, is a good average. The idea presented is liquid lava and old lava, orange and grey.

Added 10th October:
I did another quilt for August, the only one I redid. It gets to keep the title, "One out of nine". Just face it, the other one was awful! It now is a bargello background in orange with grey tongues protruding from one side.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 09:30

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"Blue moon"

July Journal page is a play with complementary colours, yellow and blue. I tried paper piecing for the blue curved strip and frankly, this method is not appealing to me. But when in need I take to desperate measures.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 09:28

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"Give Charity a chance"

The green June page is inspired by the wife of Lot. She is never mentioned by name but I am convinced that her name is Charity. I think she was a charitable woman, full of mercy, and looked back on the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra with concern for all the people she had ministered to but had no means of rescue. Her name in Icelandic is Líkn.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 09:22

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"Ripped up"

The May Journal Quilt Page is a design example for an idea I got in april and saved for May. One has to be practical and savour inspiration. The May Quilt is in yellow-green. As I am using this project to study the colour wheel, I selected split complementary colours (red/violet) as highlights.

The inspiration came from the image of the veil in the temple being torn in two at the time of Jesus' death. I used this design, with a slight variation to make a liturgical stole in grey/black/red. The stole is beautiful. Black is only used on Good Friday in my denomination and at funerals.

Posted by Ólöf I. Davíðsdóttir 16:21

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