That is what I named this piece, Film Strip 3 Frames, after seeing the film roll ends laying in the bathroom/darkroom after many of Dad's developing sessions when I was a child. The squares running along each side reminded me of the holes on the sides of the film strip. I made this piece back in the early 1990's soon after I met Melody Johnson, because that is one of her blue dyed fabrics as the background around the film strip.
A lot of the quilting lines were done with silver metallic thread, which really just looks like gray in the pictures.
Instead of quilting in the ditch, I quilted on the "upper level" which is really topstitching, like we did on the edge of a pocket or on the edge of a collar when making garments.
The batiks used in this piece are typical of the early 1990's mostly turquoise, pink, gray, and purple. Red, orange, yellow and green batiks were rather rare back then. This is the reason you need to always be adding to your stash. There are time periods when certain colors are scarce and if you buy them when you see them, you will always have a good selection on hand when an idea hits you.
A lot of the quilting lines were done with silver metallic thread, which really just looks like gray in the pictures.Instead of quilting in the ditch, I quilted on the "upper level" which is really topstitching, like we did on the edge of a pocket or on the edge of a collar when making garments.
The batiks used in this piece are typical of the early 1990's mostly turquoise, pink, gray, and purple. Red, orange, yellow and green batiks were rather rare back then. This is the reason you need to always be adding to your stash. There are time periods when certain colors are scarce and if you buy them when you see them, you will always have a good selection on hand when an idea hits you.