Thursday 3 October 2013

Quilled picture for Enid

Quilled picture for Enid by Philippa Reid
Quilled picture for Enid, a photo by Philippa Reid on Flickr.
Enid recently made some new curtains for her bedroom using a very attractive fabric that is boldly printed with leaves and flowers. We decided that the pattern would be eminently 'quillable' ... so she asked me to create a complementary quilled picture for the bedroom wall.

I took a piece of left-over fabric, scanned the individual elements of the pattern and re-arranged them on the computer using Photoshop to create a layout that I could quill.

For the large flowers, I made two different types of centre: one is a slightly domed solid coil in dark green, and the other is a punched-out disc of paper covered with teardrop shapes that have been glued in position on their edges. The petals are made using vortex coils, moulded into shape, with thin 'veins' of contrasting colours glued along their inner sides.

For the blue flowers, I made large white solid coils, covered them in tiny 'squished' coil crescent shapes in blue, then edged the solid coils with two layers of on-edge blue teardrops.

The greeny yellow globe flowers were made using punched discs of paper covered in crimped strip solid coils.

The golden leaves are made up from eye shapes, with contrasting strips glued along their inner edges to create veins.

The interlinking stems are cut from solidly glued ring coils moulded around shampoo bottles and other objects that produced the required degrees of curve.

I assembled all the pieces separately, using pins on a piece of clingfilm-covered mounting board. Then the whole piece was assembled on a 12" x 10" backing sheet to fit within the recessed frame.

I'm very pleased to report that Enid loved it!!

11 comments:

  1. What a brilliant idea to scan in the fabric! Thank you for sharing all the details so generously. Very, very clever ideas. Please let us know what 'vortex' coils are.
    I am convinced Enid will love this. Well done!

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    1. Thank you so much, Zoe! I will try to publish something on vortex coils soon - and I will mail you an example.

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  2. Oh...Its so awesome,Philippa...Wat a lovely piece of work.It will look great at her room matching the fabric...Love love love the big purply bloom and the golder color leaf...Very imaginative to make it so quillable...

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    1. Thank you, Sathya! I'm so glad you like it ...

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  3. What a nice idea! It's lovely and I'm sure your friend will be pleased.

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  4. I'm sure this will appeal to Enid. The idea is great! I think Enid will be the only one that has curtains motif transferred into a beautiful picture! And I'm sure it will fit!

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  5. Wow ! You have wonderfully quilled the pattern from fabric , loved the purple flowers n the golden leaf !

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  6. I liked it very much! It is a very true transformation from a pattern.

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  7. Excellent work. It will be perfect with the curtains.

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  8. Scanned fabric. Sounds like sifi ;) Wonderful piece of quilling Philippa :)

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  9. This is a brilliant idea and you have quilled it perfectly. Simply gorgeous.
    Love to have you visit my blog and tell me what you think.
    Chris
    http://ajourneyintoquilling.blogspot.com

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