I'm going to spread this out a bit - probably into February, since I'm also doing the Snowflake Challenge in Jan.
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alexseanchai asked for a topic about quilting — favorite patterns, favorite techniques, whatever.
My favourite patterns and designs are really anything that fools the eye, and makes you look twice, with a lean towards bright fabrics and designs.
Some examples from my own quilting are the Salt Air Split Square which was made 2015 for the combined 30th-31st-1st of a couple and their son:
Mondrian Dreaming was made for the 2014 Sydney Quilt Show, and is basically the old ‘disappearing nine-patch' quilt pattern, only with more solids.
I like when you can make the same block over and over and then do a small change, to make a startling result. Interwoven (2015), while looking pretty complicated, is actually the same sixteen-piece block repeated and rotated through 90degrees. I colour-shifted it to get the rainbow effect.
Did I mention bright colours?
I designed Swarm myself, and it's presently on its way to the US and the Quiltcon quilt show 2016 in Pasadena:
This quilt design is someone else's, but it's got lovely pattern and movement, and is actually quite simple: The 3:10 to Mendocino top was finished over the October long weekend:
And finally, there's the prospect of just making something different, that nobody's seen before or expected to see. Like Eternity:
The whole process of creating the Eternity Quilt is documented at my quilting blog here.
I give my quilts meaningful names, because it helps me remember them (although sometimes I still don't remember them because it's not one that I have an investment in), and because it gives them an identity.
In 2016?
I want to make a full-size quilt from the pattern in Interwoven. Pieces started, but there are a lot of them...
I want to complete the Technicolour Galaxy, for which my colour-in design is here. Working title Use Duct Tape Or The Force (a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the galaxy together).
And finally finish the Plain Jane Passacaglia:
It's doable. Maybe.
Talkmeme Masterpost
alexseanchai asked for a topic about quilting — favorite patterns, favorite techniques, whatever.My favourite patterns and designs are really anything that fools the eye, and makes you look twice, with a lean towards bright fabrics and designs.
Some examples from my own quilting are the Salt Air Split Square which was made 2015 for the combined 30th-31st-1st of a couple and their son:
Mondrian Dreaming was made for the 2014 Sydney Quilt Show, and is basically the old ‘disappearing nine-patch' quilt pattern, only with more solids.
I like when you can make the same block over and over and then do a small change, to make a startling result. Interwoven (2015), while looking pretty complicated, is actually the same sixteen-piece block repeated and rotated through 90degrees. I colour-shifted it to get the rainbow effect.
Did I mention bright colours?
I designed Swarm myself, and it's presently on its way to the US and the Quiltcon quilt show 2016 in Pasadena:
This quilt design is someone else's, but it's got lovely pattern and movement, and is actually quite simple: The 3:10 to Mendocino top was finished over the October long weekend:
And finally, there's the prospect of just making something different, that nobody's seen before or expected to see. Like Eternity:
The whole process of creating the Eternity Quilt is documented at my quilting blog here.
I give my quilts meaningful names, because it helps me remember them (although sometimes I still don't remember them because it's not one that I have an investment in), and because it gives them an identity.
In 2016?
I want to make a full-size quilt from the pattern in Interwoven. Pieces started, but there are a lot of them...
I want to complete the Technicolour Galaxy, for which my colour-in design is here. Working title Use Duct Tape Or The Force (a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the galaxy together).
And finally finish the Plain Jane Passacaglia:
It's doable. Maybe.
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