Last month, the very darling, Jessica Darling led a color workshop for my guild, HMQG.
I loved it, I learned a LOT. Though my lesson was not so much about color. What I learned was a lesson in improvisational piecing.
Grids, perpendicularity, parallel-ness, -- those things make my heart soar. Does that make me anal, right-brained, a control freak? Maybe, I don't know. I do know I love & admire quilts that aren't like that & I really do want to, at the very least, experiment with that sort of quilt making, but for now this improv quilt is all right angles & straight lines but with a "use what's there" approach. Who knows, maybe this is how *my* improv looks -- not so much about wonky angles & wavy seams but use-it-as-you-find-it scrap combinations.
Anyway, Jessica led a very entertaining & educational workshop. I like the little quilt that I made. And I tried something new to me when it came to quilting -- I quilted it to death! Straight lines, 1/8 to 1/4 inch apart! Unfortunately, I love the look & feel of this quilting. Why unfortunately? Because it takes FOREVER!
Things worth having are worth waiting/working for -- or some such nonsense. Right?
11 comments:
just think what a bed quilt would take
i love that kind of quilting! great project, as always. xoxo
I love this quilt!! Great use of negative space, it almost makes the pieced part look as though its floating. The quilting suits it perfectly!!
beautiful~!
I looooove this! Well done!
Looks wonderful.....I love that kind of quilting as well.
Gorgeous!! I loved seeing it in person on Saturday!
I love this quilt so so much. It's just gorgeous!
I LOVE this quilt! And you got it quilted already! Really beautiful.
This is simple and gorgeous...simply gorgeous really :-)
Beth, This is a wonderful quilt. You just amaze me. It is just right.
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