I again participated in Project Quilting’s weekly
challenge. I also incorporated the
requirements for a guild challenge. The
guild challenge was to create a 20” x 20” quilt with a laundry list of 20
requirements. Project Quilting’s theme
was “hearts”.
I used two non-traditional fabrics (1) a tomato red linen
look-alike fabric for the background, and (2) a piece of outdoor home dec
fabric to play the part of a table cloth.
From a design standpoint, I do not often do one of something in a
design. I like the repetition of
elements. The laundry list added to the
time constraint of one week means I have some things I have only done one of
one, such as the button that is the head of the dragon fly.
I also did something I have never done in that I hand quilted
the piece. Not only did I hand quilt it,
I used dark thread. That is the
influence of hearing Heidi Parks speak on Feb 1rst.
What do I like?
I love the bright background and the texture the linen
look-alike fabric brings to the piece.
Even with the laundry list of requirements and the time constraint, I
think the piece turned out great. It is
cohesive and interesting.
What do I want to try next time?
The next time I work with brights, I need to go for
broke. I love the bright green against
the red. The blue needs to be more
electric. I will try more hand
quilting. I will do more work with
non-traditional fabrics. I need to
figure out how to do machine quilting of large elements – maybe a mid-century
motif??
