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danceswchopstck:
bomberqueen17:
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I love the idea of a mixed-media ¿quilt? map of the farm! If wanted, I’d be happy to burble a few ideas for possible ways to start. If not wanted, that’s OK, too. Plenty on your plate.
The idea I have is to start with a base layer of canvas, and maybe a layer of batting and a second layer of canvas, and then quilt the general outlines into that. Then, applique the large masses of the different areas in the color they need to be– roads, streams, hills, fields, forested areas. And then, over the top of that, the finer-detailed things, like buildings and textures, would be embroidered or painted, and maybe built up with yet another layer of batting underneath for things that should be raised.
I might also do the artistic conceit of showing topograpy from the top, but all buildings and details from the side, rather than just straight-up embroidering a satellite photo.
I’d love other ideas and suggestions, though! This was good because I hadn’t put the idea into words really yet, so this got me to explain it a little more!
@bomberqueen17
Oh, good, I’m glad it was helpful!
Your ideas sound sensible to me.
I was thinking mostly about the early stages, something like:
List what RL things to depict,
Roughly sketch layout,
Decide how big to make the finished thing,
Hunt through fabric stash or store for candidate fabrics,
Decide what to embellish before it’s assembled and what to embellish after,
Pick somewhere to start assembling or embellishing,
Make lots of notes re the plan, including measurements,
Pre-shrink any new fabric!
Start cutting &/or assembling &/or embellishing with paint/embroidery/whatever!
If it were me, I think I might try to make it in smallish modules, where feasible, so there would be lots of interim victories like, “The Pond is done except for appliqueing it to the base. Next, the Place for Pigs!” (Except I don’t remember if there is a pond…) Maybe start with one small area and gradually work outward from it, so the part that already looks encouraging keeps getting bigger?
Does that make sense? I hope so!
Please feel free to use, modify, subdivide, or ignore any or all parts of these suggestions!
Yay for Making, whether it’s this or something else!
Oh this is a good overall plan for getting a thing done, for sure. My definite first step, which I’ve almost started, is making a couple of drafts of an illustration. The first thing we did was that my sister bought the USGS map sheets of the area, but of course the farm falls square on the edge of two sheets– so we scanned the relevant corners of the full-size maps, and I stitched them together in Photoshop so we could see the whole farm.
In the past, I have made a painted canvas map of a small area, so it’s not totally new in concept. This is just more elaborate because I want to do more than just paint it.
I was also considering assembling it in blocks, that’d be an idea– I haven’t done much quilting but I’ve seen a newish thing where people do whole quilt blocks, including backing and batting and all, and then assemble them together for the final product, and that seems manageable especially if you don’t have a long-arm sewing machine, as I don’t.
I might do some i-don’t-care-how-it-looks quilting for the yurt first just to practice the techniques– I want to eventually have a quilt that covers the entire inside of the yurt, for insulation.
danceswchopstck:
bomberqueen17:
danceswchopstck reblogged your post and added:
I love the idea of a mixed-media ¿quilt? map of the farm! If wanted, I’d be happy to burble a few ideas for possible ways to start. If not wanted, that’s OK, too. Plenty on your plate.
The idea I have is to start with a base layer of canvas, and maybe a layer of batting and a second layer of canvas, and then quilt the general outlines into that. Then, applique the large masses of the different areas in the color they need to be– roads, streams, hills, fields, forested areas. And then, over the top of that, the finer-detailed things, like buildings and textures, would be embroidered or painted, and maybe built up with yet another layer of batting underneath for things that should be raised.
I might also do the artistic conceit of showing topograpy from the top, but all buildings and details from the side, rather than just straight-up embroidering a satellite photo.
I’d love other ideas and suggestions, though! This was good because I hadn’t put the idea into words really yet, so this got me to explain it a little more!
@bomberqueen17
Oh, good, I’m glad it was helpful!
Your ideas sound sensible to me.
I was thinking mostly about the early stages, something like:
List what RL things to depict,
Roughly sketch layout,
Decide how big to make the finished thing,
Hunt through fabric stash or store for candidate fabrics,
Decide what to embellish before it’s assembled and what to embellish after,
Pick somewhere to start assembling or embellishing,
Make lots of notes re the plan, including measurements,
Pre-shrink any new fabric!
Start cutting &/or assembling &/or embellishing with paint/embroidery/whatever!
If it were me, I think I might try to make it in smallish modules, where feasible, so there would be lots of interim victories like, “The Pond is done except for appliqueing it to the base. Next, the Place for Pigs!” (Except I don’t remember if there is a pond…) Maybe start with one small area and gradually work outward from it, so the part that already looks encouraging keeps getting bigger?
Does that make sense? I hope so!
Please feel free to use, modify, subdivide, or ignore any or all parts of these suggestions!
Yay for Making, whether it’s this or something else!
Oh this is a good overall plan for getting a thing done, for sure. My definite first step, which I’ve almost started, is making a couple of drafts of an illustration. The first thing we did was that my sister bought the USGS map sheets of the area, but of course the farm falls square on the edge of two sheets– so we scanned the relevant corners of the full-size maps, and I stitched them together in Photoshop so we could see the whole farm.
In the past, I have made a painted canvas map of a small area, so it’s not totally new in concept. This is just more elaborate because I want to do more than just paint it.
I was also considering assembling it in blocks, that’d be an idea– I haven’t done much quilting but I’ve seen a newish thing where people do whole quilt blocks, including backing and batting and all, and then assemble them together for the final product, and that seems manageable especially if you don’t have a long-arm sewing machine, as I don’t.
I might do some i-don’t-care-how-it-looks quilting for the yurt first just to practice the techniques– I want to eventually have a quilt that covers the entire inside of the yurt, for insulation.
