"Floor" of the Doge's Palace, Venice

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10-02-2010, 04:25 AM

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Sewze

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Simply beautiful quilt. You're very talented.

10-02-2010, 04:33 AM

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Fabulous!!! You do wonderful work!

10-02-2010, 04:36 AM

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It is Beautiful! You did a wonderful job.

10-02-2010, 06:50 PM

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maxi

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That is really nice.

10-03-2010, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by QUILT4JOY

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Originally Posted by jdavis

Beautiful....aren't you going to post the picture of the floor, too?

Here is my photo of the actual floor. This was taken in April of this year before the crush of summertime crowds, so I snapped a pretty clear shot as a pedestrian was "invading" the frame. It was enough for me to work up a rough sketch for a makeshift pattern.

:thumbup: :thumbup: Yep. Your quilt is definitely more beautiful than the photo.

What she said!

10-04-2010, 04:15 AM

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Originally Posted by bonniebusybee

Inspiring! My first quilting teacher did a similar quilt using the pattern of the marble floor in the Utah state capitol building rotunda. Tell me, when you're working with batiks in a design like this, do you fussy-cut, or just let the patterns and colors fall where they may? Absolutely beautiful!

Normally, I do fussy cut my batiks to create shadows and light sources, but how serendipitous that these particular "marble-y" fabrics were shaded and mottled enough that I could cut anywhere and achieve the effect I was looking for. The gold and copper fabric in the background and borders even had golden veins running rampant through it! All I had to do was thread paint over it here and there for enhancement.