quilt #2 2011 - red, white, and blue railfence in abstract

[tielan]

Quilt Top #2 2011 - the red, white, and blue rail fence - is complete! And we're only halfway through Feb!

Starting with the fabrics:


Cut into strips:


Then strip-sewn into rows and cut into blocks. (I don't think I have pics of this section of the process.)

Test layout


I wanted a design that would flow across the quilt - more motion and intent, less random and blocky.

The final design:


And completed!


Showing the complete lay of the quilt - with the cat in the background!


If I did it over again, I'd do it slightly differently, I think. A couple of the solid blocks in the centre break up the movement more than I like, but the overall effect works.

Does anyone have ideas for a name for it?

I like naming quilts. eg. this one is named 'cathedral windows'. That's not the design, but that's the quilt's name.

Right now, this quilt is "railfence in abstract", although I'm thinking perhaps 'Mondrian on the Tracks' except that Mondrian is a lot more square and linear and more colourful. On the other hand, 'A Nation On The Rails' might be an appropriate commentary for the times, perhaps?

I haven't named the postage stamp quilt yet either, although I'm thinking either 'The Penny Patches' (after the Penny Black, which was the first stamp issued by the UK), or 'That's A Lot Of Letters!'.

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I'm already halfway through the next project which is the Moda Jelly Roll challenge. (Pick two jelly rolls and make a quilt of your own design out of them.) I'll be posting that under f-lock, because it's for a competition and the idea is that you sub the process of making the quilt design to go into a published quilting book at the end.

I mean, I'm up against people who've been doing this kind of thing for as long as I've been alive, but what the hey!

After that - through March and April, I hope - will be the Sanctuary quilt for Agam. That's going to take longer than the other ones - each block will have 12 seams to it, and the design is going to be interesting...

And then May is my Big European Holiday with the parentals, during which I may have to learn how to do hexagons. And hold conversations that aren't about tv shows. It could get very messy.

Comments

[zillah975]

Are those little hearts? That's what they look like on my browser, so my first thought for a name was "Love is a river". But that has little to do with either rails or tracks. :/ But the design does really flow across the quilt quite beautifully, and if they are little hearts, I still like the name.

[tielan]

They are little hearts, actually! Excellent eyesight! :D

'Love is a river' - heh. I definitely like that name - although I'm not sure about for this quilt.