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crazy4orcas:
I've picked four quilts with very different colour schemes, rather than just going for all the rainbow-coloured ones!
The Eternity Quilt
Probably the most dramatic quilt I've made, and specifically created for a show and a project, this is the Eternity quilt. The quilted 'Eternity' in the middle is the graffito of a WWII veteran from Sydney by the name of Arthur Stace, who went about signing the word 'Eternity' all over Sydney through the 50s and 60s.
The significance of it is the bible verse from Ecclesiastes 3:11 - "For God has set eternity into the hearts of men..." since Arthur Stace was converted to Christianity after the war.
The quilt is made to the Eternity Puzzle - a mathematic/geometrical puzzle of 209 pieces with all the same area, fitted together to form a dodecahedron. I used a fabric range that had 232 solid colours, and picked 209 of them to lay out in a rough colour wheel.
Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner
This one doesn't have a colour scheme, per se. It's a scrap quilt - which is to say all the coloured pieces in that quilt are left over bits from other quilts I've made. The 'colour scheme' is really just the background - a rough cream colour that allows the saturated 'focus' fabrics to really pop.
Still, it does show the kinds of colours I tend to like - bright, bold, saturated ones. And so is a pretty good indicator of my fabric choices across the board (although perhaps not all of them at once, together).
It's called 'nobody puts baby in the corner' because the entire quilt is made up of pieced blocks with a square in the corner:
It's just a name; I made it up; it doesn't have to make sense!
This one has a home withdbalthasar in North Carolina. :)
Sanctuary
The colour for this one was based off the fabric which gave the quilt it's name - the 'Sanctuary' fabric collection by Patty Young. It came in two colourways: a cool blue-green and a warm pink-yellow-brown-orange. I usually prefer blues, but I like warm blues, not cool ones. So I went with the warm colourway.
At the time I was into the TV show 'Sanctuary' and my favourite character was Kate Freelander played by Agam Darshi, who didn't get half enough love from either the writers or the fandom. And, as it turned out, she was coming to Australia for a con in 2011 - so I did a mad, intense rush job of finishing it off, turned up at the con and presented it to her during the signing break. I just wish I'd remembered to take a photo of her with the quilt!
New York Cat Mat
This was made as part of a 'quilt-along' - a leader posts the first block, a whole bunch of people make the block and then put pics of it up to be admired and inspired. This block collection is called 'New York Beauty'. I didn't get very far through it - we were in the midst of renovations, I believe, and after I'd done six blocks I decided I didn't like the colour scheme as much as I thought I would. The rainbow hues worked but didn't work, so I figured I'd make six blocks, turn it into an 'S' for my name, and practise my free-motion quilting.
It's pretty much been co-opted as a mat by the cats. Hence the name: "New York Cat Mat!"
Okay, so I'm about halfway through the month and I have seven more topics listed - if you'd like to add to them, the posts are here: LJ | DW
crazy4orcas:I've picked four quilts with very different colour schemes, rather than just going for all the rainbow-coloured ones!
Probably the most dramatic quilt I've made, and specifically created for a show and a project, this is the Eternity quilt. The quilted 'Eternity' in the middle is the graffito of a WWII veteran from Sydney by the name of Arthur Stace, who went about signing the word 'Eternity' all over Sydney through the 50s and 60s.
The significance of it is the bible verse from Ecclesiastes 3:11 - "For God has set eternity into the hearts of men..." since Arthur Stace was converted to Christianity after the war.
The quilt is made to the Eternity Puzzle - a mathematic/geometrical puzzle of 209 pieces with all the same area, fitted together to form a dodecahedron. I used a fabric range that had 232 solid colours, and picked 209 of them to lay out in a rough colour wheel.
This one doesn't have a colour scheme, per se. It's a scrap quilt - which is to say all the coloured pieces in that quilt are left over bits from other quilts I've made. The 'colour scheme' is really just the background - a rough cream colour that allows the saturated 'focus' fabrics to really pop.
Still, it does show the kinds of colours I tend to like - bright, bold, saturated ones. And so is a pretty good indicator of my fabric choices across the board (although perhaps not all of them at once, together).
It's called 'nobody puts baby in the corner' because the entire quilt is made up of pieced blocks with a square in the corner:
It's just a name; I made it up; it doesn't have to make sense!
This one has a home with
dbalthasar in North Carolina. :)The colour for this one was based off the fabric which gave the quilt it's name - the 'Sanctuary' fabric collection by Patty Young. It came in two colourways: a cool blue-green and a warm pink-yellow-brown-orange. I usually prefer blues, but I like warm blues, not cool ones. So I went with the warm colourway.
At the time I was into the TV show 'Sanctuary' and my favourite character was Kate Freelander played by Agam Darshi, who didn't get half enough love from either the writers or the fandom. And, as it turned out, she was coming to Australia for a con in 2011 - so I did a mad, intense rush job of finishing it off, turned up at the con and presented it to her during the signing break. I just wish I'd remembered to take a photo of her with the quilt!
This was made as part of a 'quilt-along' - a leader posts the first block, a whole bunch of people make the block and then put pics of it up to be admired and inspired. This block collection is called 'New York Beauty'. I didn't get very far through it - we were in the midst of renovations, I believe, and after I'd done six blocks I decided I didn't like the colour scheme as much as I thought I would. The rainbow hues worked but didn't work, so I figured I'd make six blocks, turn it into an 'S' for my name, and practise my free-motion quilting.
It's pretty much been co-opted as a mat by the cats. Hence the name: "New York Cat Mat!"
Okay, so I'm about halfway through the month and I have seven more topics listed - if you'd like to add to them, the posts are here: LJ | DW
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