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Sunday, March 13, 2011

Come Fly with Me!

For Challenge 5-Flying Geese I based my Project for Project Quilting on the art work of graphic artist MC Escher (Maurits Cornelis Escher).  I found the two pieces of artwork on Google images and decided I could place triangles in a similar pattern to create a cool design on the front of the quilted bag.  I used orange and purple for my complimentary colors. Then I decided I needed extra borders to make it larger and added the strips in a log cabin fashion creating a step like design element to the sides of the bag.  Then I repeated the V on the back of the bag - upside down.   My original plan was to make a small passport bag for myself, but I was having so much fun with the triangles, I decided I had to make a larger bag. So when I quilted my large bag fabric piece,  I also quilted a little flying geese design of on black and white fabric to use to create my small passport bag. My Fly Bag is about 14" wide by  15" deep.  I used a poly batting to make it a little lighter as I will pack it full for flying.  I don't have a passport yet as that is another long story... I plan to eventually apply for one, but it seems I never do it!  Maybe next week!

Enjoy your day!

Marcia


3 comments:

  1. It is a very cool bag; you'll just have to make that transport one to match...and maybe that will give you the umph to get that passport!

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  2. What a great abstraction of your Escher inspirations! I love it, too! (And, of course, you needed another bag!) Hugs - Jo (CD's mom from the Homestead)

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