The Quilt Inspired by a Vase

This quilt top that I made the other day... (colors not true)

Today I quilted it and combined it with one of these dimensional frames.... (These have glass and the artwork is raised about a half inch off of the surface and there is a spacer so that the quilt is still not touching the glass.)

This resulted in this piece:

And here it is with the vase that inspired the color choice... a vase that I glazed sometime last year. I LIKE them together! These will be fun to use in my exhibit on Monday.

Happy Creating,

-Carmen Rose

Framing more Mini Quilts

I've been looking around for projects to finish up to make my "one woman show" coming up next month. (Next MONDAY to be precise! EEK!) I discovered these four small quilt tops, fused but not quilted.

Misde wanted to help me photograph these, wasn't that nice of her?

I found these frames at TJ Maxx ages ago and when I realized what could happen when a mini quilt was glued on over the artwork... I bought all they had.

So when you put these ready made frames together with these mini quilts...

Then the artist tends to get happy.  Check out how dimensional they are:

Yeah, I like that!
(I should have tweaked the color, they look a bit washed out in these two photos.)

I was back at UVA today for a post op check up.  I'm doing pretty good, still not 100%, Doc tells me maybe another two weeks before I can expect to get my strength back.  They took blood to see how I'm doing with the anemia.  I'm trying to be patient... but putting recovery and prep for a featured artist exhibit together on the same schedule... well... it's not exactly working for the show or the recovery.  Here I am again, pulled in a variety of directions.  I am beginning to think it's the story of my life!  Do you ever just want to stomp your little foot and tell the world to just stop spinning for a dad-blamed second?!  Yeah, I do.

On the way back from my doctor's appt, I stopped by Waynesboro for a little shopping.  I was doing it mostly for the exercise, and because I'm always so happy to get out of the house these days that I have trouble going home before I've had a little adventure, somehow, some way.  Today I happened in the door of Ross, (like TJ Maxx) and I always check the cheesy reproduction "art" section for frames for quilts...  

GUESS WHAT I FOUND?!  

More of these dimensional frames!  I'm so tickled!  I snapped up all they had!  (Only four)  I may have to take a day and just drive to all the TJ's and Ross's in reasonable distance just to see if I can find more of these!  (Put down those car keys, step away from the car!)

Time to get back in the studio again, time's a tick tockin right on by.

Happy Creating,
-Carmen Rose

Framing a Mini Quilt

I had a hair brained idea the other day, why not put this ready made frame together with this small quilt:


And when I tried it, I LIKED it!

Now this is one of my new favorites. Now whether or not I'll ever let it leave my house, I do not know. Right now I think I'd just like to enjoy it myself for a while.

I love the dimensional quality of this frame, I came across it by accident and bought all I could get my hands on.  I love the look of a small framed quilt.  So... I think it works. 

Happy Creating,
-Carmen Rose

Framed Mini Quilts

While shopping the other day I came across a number of ready made frames and decided to pick up a few and experiment with some of my mini art quilts. So take a look and tell me which ones you like the best.
This is a large floating frame with no glass. It is 17x17 and the quilt is 6x6 inches. $185 I love how much dimension is in this kind of framing.
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This is a small quilt behind glass, and also under a double mat in a chocolate brown frame. It's 13.5 x 13.5 inches. $69
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This one is similar, a 17.5 x 14.5 inch frame with a long narrow quilt in it. This one is mounted over the mat board so that the edges of the quilt still show. $84
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This is a table top 8x10 shadow box frame, it has no hardware to hang it on the wall. $45
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This one is a traditional shadow box frame. 12x12 and rather deep. I like how the photograph turned out but this quilt is not for sale. I added some crystals and glass to the surface of this quilt. As you can see, it has found a good place in my home.
For more information on the mini quilt series, and better photographs of these quilts before framing, they live here.

Which framing options do you like best?

Framing Mini Quilts

I've framed up some of my mini quilts and am very pleased with how they turned out. I will need to wait for some daylight for decent photos of the rest but I have photos of this one because it's hanging on the wall in my bathroom. =)

I love the dimension in this frame, and no glass to hide the work.

More photos coming of the rest of the framed up mini quilts, and maybe even some photos of my bathroom now that it's all decked out in great artwork. Soon.

Found Art

Well, not in the traditional sense of "found art" like finding something at the dump and taking it home and putting gallery lighting on it and calling it something...

Found art in the sense that I made this years ago and then promptly forgot it existed. And I found it today and I like it. So I'm thinking I'll see if I can find a decent frame and pop this thing up on a wall somewhere.

It's the view from Warm Springs Mountain in Virginia, I used to drive past this view on the way to and from work every day as I crossed the mountain. I love Virginia mountains!!!

Detail:


It's watercolor layered with colored pencils.