“Wild Angles”
14” x 19”
JeanAnn Fenrich, playing with fiber and fabrics in Scandia, Minnesota.
With the Week 2 theme “Triangulation" I wanted to create a piece with all triangles and straight sides. Other than the overall rectangular shape, all elements of this wall hanging are made up of 3-sided pieces from the polygonal jackrabbit to the mountains, moon and even the falling snowflakes.
The piece was inspired by my daughter’s interest in jackrabbits and the fact that she lives in Montana with awesome views of the Gallatin Mountain range.
I traced a head and body from 2 different images of jackrabbits and then applied triangles. The outline was printed on fabric with a home inkjet printer. This was the guide for the fabrics that made up the rabbit with the thought that the it would become an appliqué itself. The next step was outlining the fabric triangles with thread to maintain the polygonal art style.
The entire rabbit was cut away from the foundation fabric and then satin stitched to the layered background.
To keep the jackrabbit as the primary focus I used a sheer gray organza over the entire piece. This helped tone down the white “snow" and give it an overall nighttime feel.
After the jackrabbit was stitched, falling “snowflakes” were added by breaking apart one of the specialty stitch on my Bernina.
This small art quilt is bound and ready to hang as soon as it gets from Minnesota to Montana.
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What a fabulous quilt. Your daughter should be thrilled.
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