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Posted by kratersge on September 11, 2009, 8:45 am
I offered a quilt to my niece asking
(1) size; up to queen
(2) colors; suggested sending me paint chips
(3) theme or style or mood
She responded immediately with double size, turquoise/navy & shell
colors, serenity. This is my idea -- no pictures -- you have to use
your brain.
A ghost layer quilt.
-- Big horizontal wavy color wash in blue/tans
-- Ghost layer of a coral silhouette -- big, basically covering the
whole quilt
-- Base layer of a school of fish with very simple silhouettes.
-- "secret message" embedded inside of the word "Serenity"
I'm really excited, but haven't managed to get anything on paper yet.
I have decided not to try and draft it in EQ6. I'm going to do it on
sheets of paper, then transfer to clear film with a sharpie, then
stack up the layers & scan them. Then I can print it out full size
without a lot of futzing.
At first, I had the coral as the base layer, but the ghost layer is
supposed to be only "light" and "dark", and it makes more sense for
the coral layer to have 2 values, and the fish to have 3 values (light/
medium/dark).
Susan K
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on September 11, 2009, 8:50 am
Hi Susan,
Sounds intriguing. I've not heard the term "ghost layer quilt"
before; would you mind explaining the concept?
Doc
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> I offered a quilt to my niece asking
> (1) size; up to queen
> (2) colors; suggested sending me paint chips
> (3) theme or style or mood
> She responded immediately with double size, turquoise/navy & shell
> colors, serenity. =A0This is my idea -- no pictures -- you have to use
> your brain.
> A ghost layer quilt.
> -- Big horizontal wavy color wash in blue/tans
> -- Ghost layer of a coral silhouette -- big, basically covering the
> whole quilt
> -- Base layer of a school of fish with very simple silhouettes.
> -- "secret message" embedded inside of the word "Serenity"
> I'm really excited, but haven't managed to get anything on paper yet.
> I have decided not to try and draft it in EQ6. =A0I'm going to do it on
> sheets of paper, then transfer to clear film with a sharpie, then
> stack up the layers & scan them. =A0Then I can print it out full size
> without a lot of futzing.
> At first, I had the coral as the base layer, but the ghost layer is
> supposed to be only "light" and "dark", and it makes more sense for
> the coral layer to have 2 values, and the fish to have 3 values (light/
> medium/dark).
> Susan K
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Posted by susan on September 11, 2009, 8:59 am
wrote:
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> Sounds intriguing. =A0I've not heard the term "ghost layer quilt"
> before; would you mind explaining the concept?
It's by Katie Pasquini Masopust... http://www.katiepm.com/
If you look at her gallery you'll see it. I bought her book from
Amazon. It has very clear reliable techniques to get the magical
transparancy.
Here are links to my ghost layer quilts. Just "backup" on the url to
"members.cox.net/kratersge" to get my main gallery page with
descriptions and such.
http://members.cox.net/kratersge/dgost.JPG
http://members.cox.net/kratersge/dramaghost.JPG
http://members.cox.net/kratersge/sunshine.JPG
http://members.cox.net/skraterfield/om.jpg
Susan K
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on September 11, 2009, 11:50 am
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> wrote:
> > Sounds intriguing. =A0I've not heard the term "ghost layer quilt"
> > before; would you mind explaining the concept?
> It's by Katie Pasquini Masopust...http://www.katiepm.com/
> If you look at her gallery you'll see it. =A0I bought her book from
> Amazon. =A0It has very clear reliable techniques to get the magical
> transparancy.
Hi Susan,
Just the basics. It appears that what I'm seeing are tints used in
such a way to create the illusion of (for example)
a cloud or sheet of tissue in front of some elements. Is that it?
Doc
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Posted by susan on September 11, 2009, 1:56 pm
wrote:
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> > wrote:
> > > Sounds intriguing. =A0I've not heard the term "ghost layer quilt"
> > > before; would you mind explaining the concept?
> > It's by Katie Pasquini Masopust...http://www.katiepm.com/
> > If you look at her gallery you'll see it. =A0I bought her book from
> > Amazon. =A0It has very clear reliable techniques to get the magical
> > transparancy.
> Hi Susan,
> Just the basics. =A0It appears that what I'm seeing are tints used in
> such a way to create the illusion of (for example)
> a cloud or sheet of tissue in front of some elements. =A0Is that it?
> Doc
Sort of. You do a base layer in light/med/dark only. You design a
"ghost" that uses only light/dark. Everywhere the ghost overlays the
base, you make the color that *would* have been there 1 shade lighter
or darker depending on which the ghost was. The Om symbol in my yoga
quilt has only a "light" ghost. The portrait of my daughter has ghost
sunflowers with a dark middle and light petals.
All together, you end up with 7 possible shades of each color: LL, L,
ML, M, MD, D, DD. That's a lot of different fabrics once you multiply
it by the number of colors you use, but lots of them end up unused
'cause there's no ghost over top of every single place.
Susan k
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> (1) size; up to queen
> (2) colors; suggested sending me paint chips
> (3) theme or style or mood
> She responded immediately with double size, turquoise/navy & shell
> colors, serenity. =A0This is my idea -- no pictures -- you have to use
> your brain.
> A ghost layer quilt.
> -- Big horizontal wavy color wash in blue/tans
> -- Ghost layer of a coral silhouette -- big, basically covering the
> whole quilt
> -- Base layer of a school of fish with very simple silhouettes.
> -- "secret message" embedded inside of the word "Serenity"
> I'm really excited, but haven't managed to get anything on paper yet.
> I have decided not to try and draft it in EQ6. =A0I'm going to do it on
> sheets of paper, then transfer to clear film with a sharpie, then
> stack up the layers & scan them. =A0Then I can print it out full size
> without a lot of futzing.
> At first, I had the coral as the base layer, but the ghost layer is
> supposed to be only "light" and "dark", and it makes more sense for
> the coral layer to have 2 values, and the fish to have 3 values (light/
> medium/dark).
> Susan K