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. |
3 comments:
Your quilt turned out very nicely. Color placement makes blocks look so different!
It turned out beautifully Louisa! Amazing how different they all look. Love how you brought them all together with the blue and white.
You did a fine job of making blue the predominant colour, great job!
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