Patterns of Marble Cotton Fabrics
My first quilts were patchwork patterns and they have always been my favorite form of sewing, connecting fabrics to create a geometric shape. Both abstract collage to intricately pieced log cabins attract my artistic nature.
Marbling patterns mesmerize, touching some long ago place in my spirit. This feeling happens every time I study my marble cloth. I am carried back to a place in time of quiet flow and uncensored expression. |
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Free Lesson to learn
paper piecing using a
square in square pattern.
Just click on the square above and you will go to the directions and pattern to learn one of my favorite sewing techniques. There are many photos to help you with the process.
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stone
Every marble fabric you see on this site was created by me and then scanned for a digital file. I have also kept as true to the actually color as possible. Notice the aliveness in the not so perfect combing to give each piece a distinctive and decided un-mechancial look.
I desire for my cloth to have a repeating pattern but nothing is exactly alike. Even if I marble numerous background fabrics trying for the same look, there are still no two pieces the same. As the carrageenan ages with each print made, the paints react differently on the surface. This is the dynamic element when you marble on carrageenan and I love to see the subtle change in how the paint floats and expands on the surface before combing.
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freeform
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Cascade
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American
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Dutch
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freeform
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| In naming the different marbling patterns remember that the marbling books sometimes give different names for the same pattern. Feast your eyes and fill your senses with the beauty of marbling. |
french curl
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get-gel
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mistake
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overmarble
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chevron
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peacock
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I have shared with you only a fraction of my marble fabrics. The more subtle designs on the darker fabrics, large light pieces for back grounds, get-gels in many colors, same with nonpareil patterns are all missing from the examples.
I have hundreds of marble fabrics to create my marble quilts and at times it seems like I never have the right color. |
Rather than stop to marble I simple turn up the creative flow and dig into my pile of fabrics to find the solution not yet thought up . |
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