Vibrato

Size: 62” x 42” (WxH) Year ended: 2018 Description: “Music and color are recurrent themes in my work … in this quilt I wanted to interpret Vibrato as a musical term and the vibration of colors as an optical effect of movement. Through the use of vibrating colors and quilted waves, this concept of “Vibrato” is…

Artificial Light

Size: 48” x 42” (WxH) Ended year: 2018 Description: “The existence of this quilt is a consequence of having read Sherri Lynn Wood’s book “The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters.” Using one of their improvisation processes, I started cutting and joining the fabrics, where I decided to use 3 ranges of colors (green, red and…

Improvised Sun

Size: 48” x 34” (WxH) Ended year: 2018 Description: I started this quilt as an improvisation exercise . I came to do a very structured quilt, and I needed to do something free and without structure, with curves and cuts without rulers. This is how once I started to organize the blocks by value in color,…

Pincushion Tutorial

Materials: Cutting mat Rotary cutter Patchwork ruler Pins Sewing thread Synthetic cotton to fill 1/4” foot Sewing machine 9 squares of fabric for the background of 2’’ on each side 9 squares of color fabric of 1 1/2” on each side 2 rectangles of 5” x 2 3/4” of th same background fabric Preparing the…

Quilt Sky with diamond

Size: 60” x 60” (WxH) Ended year: 2018 Description: “Many times I use music as inspiration, and this time it was the Beatles song, “Lucy in the sky with diamonds”, which led me to design this quilt. To the sound of “picture yourself in a boat on a river, with tangerine trees and marmalade skies”,…

Quilt into the deep

Size: 65” x 40” (WxH) Ended year: 2017 Description: “Into the Deep” was born as an exercise that I had to do in my art quilt class, in which I`m a student. I had to create a block with the concept of Tessellation. Then I had to design a complete quilt with this block and…

Color explosion

Size: 50” x 39” (WxH) Ended year: 2017 Description: “The inspiration for this Quilt comes from having read Amy Friend’s book “Improv Paper Piecing”, which led me to design the block that can be observed and that is repeated throughout this Quilt. I used a palette of colors of my taste, using more than 40…

Quilt Blind Melon

Size: 50” x 50” (WxH) Ended year: 2018 Descripción:  This Quilt is made with a unique block of my own design. The objective of this quilt was to connect 2 different colors, just playing with the color value. I did all the piecing listening the music of the Band “Blind Melon”, that’s why its name”…