Color the most Crucial aspects of any Quilt
Color is one of the most crucial aspects of any quilt. Working in connection with fabric texture, these two elements constitute a quilt's personal feeling or story. But what exactly is the "story" of a quilt, and how does color inform that process? Creative quilter and all around artist Wendy Nash lends insight into these questions.Nash explains that she always wants the colors of her quilts to open a dialogue. She begins the process by laying all her available colors out on a large table or surface. Then she simply sees which ones naturally accent the others. When colors are particularly heightened and vibrant either on their own or due to the relationship with another color, she calls that "making the colors sing." Needless to say, Nash wants her quilts to sing.Once she has established which colors open up a desirable dialogue or song, she builds the quilt around that idea. Perhaps it's a deep purple trimmed with a soft pastel peach. Perhaps its inky black accented by shocking white. Whatever the colors, this is Nash's starting point. She then proceeds to pin these colors together and hang them in a prominent place in her home. She simply tacks them on a bulletin board and picks a place she knows she'll walk by frequently. Nash calls this stage of the process "living with the colors." She gauges how the presence of the colors affects her mood and feelings, and if the evoked feeling is desirable, she proceeds with her quilting project.For Nash, color is a very interactive part of the creative process. When she's determining which colors to use, she doesn't even solely rely on sight. Instead, she brings in the more esoteric element of feeling. According to her, the most important job of a quilt is that it conveys certain feelings to people. The interesting part of quilting is that the particular feeling doesn't have to be the same for every viewer. Each person can interact with the colors and the finished product in varying and different ways, but so long as the experience is interactive (opens up a dialogue between the viewer and the piece) Nash feels she has created a successful piece of art.
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