This year's theme was A Quilter's Dozen. My interpretation of the challenge used a dozen Wildflower blocks (my block that is included in the current issue of Quiltmaker's 100 Blocks magazine.) I made my blocks (twelve inch blocks, of course!) with a dozen fabrics which I carefully rotated through the various fabric placement positions in the block. This resulted in some block colorations that I would NEVER have selected by any other method.
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| I was really pleased with the red and the orange in this block. |
My original idea had been to make a quilt that was predominantly blue and gray, but along the way it seems that a lot of orange and red had slipped in. So when the twelve blocks were finished I chose elements from the block for the borders and the centre motif, and I used more of the cooler hues there to push the quilt back into the blue range.
Then I put the quilt on my longarm and quilted feathers and pebbles and spirals until I had filled the surface.
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| The most difficult part of the project was getting a decent picture! Finally a day arrived when the sun shone and the wind did not blow too wildly. |