You have got to be kidding!

This is one of my pet peeves: copyright gone stupid! I think if you manufacture fabric you have got to expect some people will make things out of said fabric and may even sell a few. what is next copyright on blank paper do paper manufacturers need to get a cut out of the novel you have written or give you permission? what about the thread we use, or the sewing machine we produced it on?

City Harbour done!

 working on binding!

 nice neat corners!

all done!!!

Joseph Low, meet Jessica Hogarth

I picked up some fabrics by Jessica Hogarth on a recent shopping trip just because it reminded me of animation and illustration from my childhood years, in particular this one:

I bought a few matching fabrics and this one from the same line with these cute birds:

I played with my fabrics and came up with a sort of slash and sew design:

but I was stuck at the green border where to go from here? but in my internet search for cool album covers I came across this one by Joseph Low:

Omg! everything old is new again! the style of drawing is so similar to Jessica Hogarth, don't you think....and do you recognize the art style? Apparently Joseph Low is a Caldecott winner for a children's book called Mice Twice and was a frequent cover artist for The New Yorker magazine between 1940-1980.
....but I digresss! this album cover inspired me to play with a black and white background, from this:

to this! The converging lines remind me of the opening credits to North by Northwest (Saul Bass) and the added touch of The Birds fabric make this the perfect Alfred Hitchcock tribute don't you think?

 

Now I have to figure out how to quilt it!

Homage to the square

My husband collects vinyl. Records, that is. We have been spend a lot of time at used record shops when we go on vacation. I like to check out fabric and quilt shops and he likes the used record stores. I have found a new way to enjoy my time in the record shop, checking out the album covers! Many of them are quite inspirational from a quilting perspetive! I have come across quite a few artists that I like and want to collect.

It started with Saul Bass:

 He designed everything in the 1960's, really. ok exaggeration! He was a graphic designer famous for such iconic logos as Kleenex, Quaker Oats, United Way,  and Dixie cups. He did title sequences and posters for movies such as North by Northwest, It's a Mad,Mad World, Man with the Golden Arm, and Anatomy of a Murder. I think he is one of the most copied designers ever.

 

This stuff makes me want to run to the sewing machine and make bright bold colourful quilts!

Then I discovered S. Neil Fujita, another designer, best known for the cover to the novel The Godfather.

I soon discovered jazz is where it is at for inspirational album covers!
Jim Flora:

(is it just me or do I see a future Laurel Burch here)


 Then I discovered Command Records and Josef Albers

see previous post, I already made that quilt!

does this not remind you of one of blogger's early templates?

broken nine-patches?!

I am now reading Josef Albers A Retrospective. It turns out he is known for Homage to the Square.

There is nothing more quilty than that!

Whoa!

Did you ever get a whoa moment?  That's what happened when I found this album cover on the internet!

Sewing Day!

I finally got together with some friends and spend the day sewing! I have not had many chances to participate in any guild activities, either, I have been so busy at work lately. Gail hosted and the three C's (Christine, Cathy and Carol) supplied some potluck food for lunch.

Remember these luscious reds? I finally got a chance to work on them!

I had all those fat quarters cut into rectangles 4.75 x6.75 and sorted into pairs. I would take a pair and then make 4 random slices through them and then alternate the colours and then sew them together. Then I would trim them down to 4.5 inches square. I completed 40 of them and still have about 14 more to go. I am thinking of making a table runner out of it....we shall see.

The year of the big quilt!

 It still needs binding, but here is a photo of my City Harbour Quilt. I had to hang it from the curtain rod in my living room it was the only space big enough for me to take a photo.

 Here is a close up of the straight line quilting:

I also hung the Hawaiian Punch quilt in the window to get a better photo, of course the light is shining through the window giving it a bit of a stained glass look. Hopefully it will go off to the machine quilter in the next couple of weeks.