Do you remember OKEANOS, the piece whose origin I showed you before? If not, check it out here. Today I can tell you more about further progress that I have made.
After I managed to make the sky, I started working on the light house.
The hardest part was to decide what to cut and what to leave in the light house. I wanted to keep it as close to the originals as possible.
When the light house was almost ready, I connected the sky with the ocean. Next, I glued the light house. I made a light. I cut the rays out of the yellow fabric, which I additionally painted with gold shimmering paint. It worked out pretty well. In the final process planned on quilting it with a golden thread.
You could say that the light house is finished.
Now is the time for the hardest part-the ocean.
I initially counted the number of the pieces it would be composed off and it came out to more than a thousand. Not bad.
I used a rough application here. I used double sided fusible web. I am incredibly happy that it was invented. Without it, it would take months to make an art quilt.
I tried to make the ocean with individual colors, which I cut with scissors and put them into separate bowls.
Each color was additionally divided into sections and placed into appropriate bowls. As you can see below, there were many. If they were all in one bowl, I would never find the right element. And it was just the white color. And where are the rest?
The elements that I already glued to the underside layer of the ocean, I marked on with a colored pencil on a diagram.
I felt like a little kid that paints coloring books and arranges difficult puzzles.
Of course, I had helpers. Each one wanted to choose the fabric, that would be used in my quilt. This time there was no fight.
Work on the ocean was moving very slowly.
An inspection took place in every few days. They checked whether the fabrics they selected have already been used.
Each of them did it at different times.
If something was not going their way, they gave me the cold shoulder.
But that was not even the worst part.
A terrible thing happened. My tiny PRYM iron broke. I was extremely despaired. I could not buy it anywhere. I had to use the big one.
You certainly know how hard it is to stick tiny elements using a big regular iron. While gluing down, sometimes I needed to make some minor corrections and a big iron did not help with this at all.
At one point I thought I was not going to finish it. The work on it dragged for a long time. I was sitting and working for days until my spine hurt. I cut and glued and cut and glued again. On and on, it felt endless. After my tiny iron broke, I had moments of doubt. I was wondering if I ever will be able to finish it. I was sitting over my unfinished quilt and cried.
That was a hard time for me. I think none of my quilts have even been this laborious and complicated.
Here is the quilt almost done. I just need to glue a few missing elements and I can start quilting it. I will tell you about this process next time.
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