Recycled materials

Couple of weeks ago I found this UFO in one of my fabric bins. I started it last year and it's made of recycled t-shirts I got from the thrift store. I wish I took a picture of the t-shirts racks at the Salvation Army. The person who organized all those t-shirts did a really good job arranging them by color and then by hues. Looking at all those racks was similar to looking at a new set of coloring pencils, and I wanted to play with all those colors right away.

The arrange of lines and arrows here is based on an monoprint I made many years ago when studying printmaking at RIT. My goal was to hand stitch the whole piece which measures somewhere around 25" by 40". Obviously, I got tired of it, and I also got really busy with all the packing and so.

Now it looks like a new project again, I actually like it a lot. And although I'm very tempted to go over it with my sewing machine, I'll try be strong and consistent with the hand stitching.  

Hace un par de semanas me encontré con este proyecto que quedó a medias. Lo empecé durante el año pasados y está hecho de retazos de camisetas que conseguí en una tienda de segunda mano. Quisiera haber tomado una foto de todas las camisetas de colores colgadas en el galpón del Salvation Army, la persona que organizó todas esas camisetas por color y de ahí por tonos hizo un trabajo fenomenal. Todas esas camisetas acomodadas se veían como una caja de lápices de colores nuevos y yo moría por empezar a cortar toda esa tela y crear algo.

La manera en que acomodé los retazos está basado en una monografía que hice hace muchos años cuando estudiaba en el RIT. Mi meta es terminar de coser toda la pieza, que mide más o menos 25” por 40”, a mano. Obviamente, me cansé de trabajar en este proyecto en aquel momento, además de que derrepente me ví muy ocupada empacando para la mudanza.

Ahora lo veo como algo nuevo otra vez y me gusta mucho; aunque he de confesar que estoy tentada a pasarle la máquina de coser por encima, pero seré fuerte y consistente con los planes y la seguiré cosiendo a mano.

 

Comments

[libbyQ]

i love seeing your hand stitches and this looks like it's turning into a beautiful piece~!

i love the idea of upcycling the t-shirts even though it's not the type of fiber most of the traditional quilting information leads/instructs us to use.
it looks as though you probably don't have to worry about turning under a seam allowance as these fibers are unlikely to fray . . . i'd love to hear more about the process on this quilt as it relates to stretchy knit fibers~!
i notice that you have a lot of layers in various places. is this difficult to stitch through? is there a batting? or a backing?
so many questions~! lol

:-)
libbyQ

[libbyQ]

it's interesting that you recently posted a "monday inspiration" post about using solid colors . . . this is a beautiful example of doing that as well~!

:-)
libbyQ

[Paloma]

Thank you Libby for your visit and your comments Libby. You're right, this is another way to work with solids. I think this project is far from the conventions of quilting although it somehow looks like a quilt, the hand stitches makes it look like as quilt as well.
I think I should post more about the details of it. There's so much to say about it but since I'm more of a images kind of person, I always think that a long post may be a bit too much.

[Salley]

Wow I wouldnt touch stretchy stuff EVER!! You are amazing . .cant wait to see how it all goes.

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