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Bias Interlace
16 Dec 2008 03:02 pmI admit to a fascination with the bias interlace technique ever since a visit to a quilt shop where I saw a beautiful little wallhanging that featured rainbow bias, and another of my favourite things; a seahorse. Sadly, for me anyway, this little piece had been made during a workshop and the shop owner had no pattern for it. I didn't have my camera to capture it, the quilt shop has gone and so the detail fades in my memory, although I think of it regularly.
There is a fabulous example of bias interlace in the Dec/Jan 09 Quilters Newsletter. Rosa Gallica by Janine Merrill. Beautiful and intricate, the centre of the design reminds me of the quatrefoil hearts of old-fashioned roses. You know, the ones that actually smell like roses. :) That set me off thinking about having a go at this technique again.
I've been toying with ideas for my first piece of bias interlace for a while now, off and on. Among these ideas were the triple hare in the moon, an old symbol I spotted most recently on the cover artwork of the AFI cd decemberunderground.
Never having tried the technique, I thought I should start with something easier than a complex twisty turny thing that's twistier than a twisty turny thing surfing a corkscrew. ;) So, following the design principles in my interlace/celtic knot books, I'm going to draw my own and have a go with the roll of narrow bias I bought the other day.
Right after I decide how to mark up Spring Madness, and how I should quilt Instant Sunshine and the little mat that goes with it, and cut some more middle squares for the batik Economy blocks, and finish the hanging sleeve on Bliu Brîn D’Né, and, and...
Away and get buzzing, then! À bi!
There is a fabulous example of bias interlace in the Dec/Jan 09 Quilters Newsletter. Rosa Gallica by Janine Merrill. Beautiful and intricate, the centre of the design reminds me of the quatrefoil hearts of old-fashioned roses. You know, the ones that actually smell like roses. :) That set me off thinking about having a go at this technique again.
I've been toying with ideas for my first piece of bias interlace for a while now, off and on. Among these ideas were the triple hare in the moon, an old symbol I spotted most recently on the cover artwork of the AFI cd decemberunderground.
Never having tried the technique, I thought I should start with something easier than a complex twisty turny thing that's twistier than a twisty turny thing surfing a corkscrew. ;) So, following the design principles in my interlace/celtic knot books, I'm going to draw my own and have a go with the roll of narrow bias I bought the other day.
Right after I decide how to mark up Spring Madness, and how I should quilt Instant Sunshine and the little mat that goes with it, and cut some more middle squares for the batik Economy blocks, and finish the hanging sleeve on Bliu Brîn D’Né, and, and...
Away and get buzzing, then! À bi!
