Solus Quilt

 I've wanted to make a quilt of my daughter and myself for several years and finally got around to it during lockdown last summer. We had great fun taking and selecting a selfie to use. I did some playing around in Photoshop and sent it off to the printers. 

It's a whole cloth quilt, layered in the traditional way, and then densely quilted along the outlines

Solus is the tilte of the piece and is the Irish word for light, and this wee beauty is one of the two lights that keep me going and brighten my world, every day.

Solus 31.5 x 108 cm

detail of Solus

This pink version was my first attempt using this image and was printed in sections on my A4 printer and assembled for a CQ Contemporary Quilt exhibition "Fragmentation" Click on the title below to see the whole exhibition on the Quilters Guild of the British Isles website. 

I was very annoyed at the obvious joins in the piece and that's why I decided to do a whole cloth version, I do like the colours though.

                                                       "Picking Up the Pieces" 100 x 60 cm

artist statement:

Inspiration
Relationships change 
Hearts are Broken 
Pick up the pieces and move on 
Feel the Love, feel the Pain 
Pick up the pieces and move on 
Time will heal, it always does 
Pick up the pieces and move on 
Fight the fear, Embrace the Unknown 
Pick up the pieces and move on 

Materials and techniques
Digitally altered selfie photograph, printed onto cotton and intensively free motion quilted on domestic machine. 
Digitally printed cotton, double batting of cotton and wool, cotton backing and binding. 

detail of Picking Up the Pieces

                                                          detail of Picking Up the Pieces

Since I've been playing with this technique for awhile now, I've decided it needs a name and "Fragmented" is the chosen one!