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This past weekend, I took a all day workshop with Michelle Wilke @ml_wilke called The Art of Bending Fabric. Michelle's quilt Rails, exhibited in QuiltCon and elsewhere, is a beautiful example of this technique.
The theme for the class was "Let It Go" - frustrations, rules, fuss, even rulers! - and building up the quilt from the center was quite fun.
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I brought a bunch of 1.5" strips in warm and cool tones and ended up using mainly blues with some pops of green and yellow. My vision of the quilt before I started was to have a lot more negative space but I realized I actually brought a single shade of white in what I thought was lots of different shades.
My piece is roughly 20" wide and 18" tall. It needs a really good starching and pressing or maybe even a blocking to get it flat. I have a plan on how to quilt it but will likely not get to it for awhile.
Michelle is a wonderful teacher should you ever get a chance to take a class with her.
I think it's great that you could take such an interesting improv workshop with Michelle! I've always admire her quilt pieces, but have only had the occasion to attend one of her QuiltCon lectures. I have to smile when looking at the picture of you two... am I the only one who has commented that it looks like you're holding up a skirt? No doubt it's a beautiful skirt though! :-)
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