Approximately 32″ square. Cotton fabric, cotton/bamboo batting, rayon thread. Machine embroidery, quilting, trapplique.
I’m submitting this in Art Quilts because there’s no “animation” category in the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. 😉 I’m happy to have it in an online show, because you can easily see it animated:
Each block of the quilt is a frame in the animated cycle above. I created the animation, exported as vector images which Theo Gray stitchcoded in Mathematica. Each block was stitched in 2 parts on our embroidery machine: first the Ziz (gryphon) figure, then the background. I cut out and applied the former to the latter and the machine “trappliqued” it down and did the echo pattern. Finally I zigzag stitched the blocks together, topstitched homemade bias tape over the seams, and bound it.
Amazing! I am well and truly impressed. Great job!
what a wonderful piece! so creative – thank you for sharing!
This is unreal! And definitely multi-media quilting. 🙂 I’ve never seen animation cels tackled this way – it’s really a remarkable piece.
Hee hee, this totally appeals to my sense of whimsy, love it!
This deserves a nomination! At first glance it looks like it belongs in applique rather than art quilt, but this is practically a new art form in itself. This is the perfect venue to show it off, because the animation is so key to the artwork. The actual execution is on a level to do justice to the concept. I like how the marbled background translates to clouds and adds to the impression of running fast.
Gorgeous! And totally fun!
Ooooh, I love this quilt! What a wonderful idea to do an animation cell quilt. I’ll have to show it to my brother. He used to be an animator for Disney. Bet he’d get a kick out of it too. You’d almost have to have an ipad near by to show the animation when hanging this in a quilt show. Just too fun! Will you make more animated quilts? What about two quilts hanging side by side that “speak” to each other?
This is so outrageously cool. So awesome!!
This is beautiful, and so full of win! 🙂
That’s so cool.
Just amazing! You are so creative!