Daily Art #2 – Lemon Love – 5/29/23

My aunt gifted me these fabulous lemon fabrics and I finally got inspired to use them. I love lemons so I decided to make a little quilt square highlighting my love of lemons. It took a while to do the stitching, but it was fun. It was also interesting working with a mostly yellow color palette because I usually stick to pinks and blues and greens. I wanna make more with yellow though.

Thinking about: lemon yellow painting, making a big quilt with all my tinier quilt squares/rectangles

Listening to: Karma Taylor Swift & Barber: Adagio for Strings

I made the knit swatch in the lower left corner in high school art class when I found one knitting needle and yarn and I used a pencil for the other knitting needle. I’ve held onto it for the past 6 years and I’ve finally used it in a project. I love scraps that can be combined into art later on in my life. Revisiting old memories and pieces from the past and incorporating them into something new.

My Recent Sewing/Textile Projects: Art, A Bag, & A Quilt

Lately I’ve been really into sewing and making things with textiles, fibers, yarns, beads, and crafty supplies. I made this small fabric panel featuring a ton of scenes and ideas mashed together in one collage-like scrappy, crooked square.

untitled (i don’t know), fabric collage (embroidery thread, various fabrics, sequins, and a little clay star), ~17.5″ x 17.5″, 2021

Some close-up detail shots:

Patchwork Bag – I also made a patchwork flower bag inspired by a bag I saw on Pinterest. Here are some of my process pictures and my final product:

My Quilt – I worked on my quilt in February and March. It was my first quilt and it was a very fun process:

As I was finishing up my quilt, my mom showed me a quilt made by my great-grandmother where she had stitched in her name and the date, so I decided to do the same.