SAQA Seminar - Unit 3
Gallery - Timna Tarr
For more details about Timna and her work, please visit her website at http://www.timnatarr.com/
DESIGN PROCESS
1. Original 1944 Army Corp of Engineers map showing a section of the Mississippi River and how its course has changed over time.
2. The original map is printed, on vinyl, to the finished size of the quilt. I then draw a pattern on paper.
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2.5. The paper pattern in then cut into sections to make freezer paper templates. Each color of fabric has a corresponding number, so I can keep track of where everything belongs. The fabric pieces are then sewn together by hand.
3-5 As smaller sections of the applique are finished, I lay them out on the original map, so I can keep track of how all of the pieces fit together.
6. After all of the appliqued sections are complete, I lay them out on the background fabric. Then I sew the sections together and applique the entire piece to the background fabric. After everything is sewn together, I cut the background fabric out from behind the appliqued pieces and pull out the freezer paper templates.
7. The top of the quilt is finished, ready to be quilted.
8-9. Quilting takes place on my longarm machine. This is the first time I use a sewing machine during process. The topographical lines of the original map are the inspiration for the quilted lines.
FINAL IMAGE
Mississippi Meander II (Photo by Stephen Petegorsky)