If you've followed me for any amount of time, you know I love love feathers. I wanted them to be individual and add some interest. Yes, I originally had thought to do swirls similar to those on the huge leaf, but well, I just couldn't. The leaves that float on the cream background got special treatment. (no affiliation, just an excellent thread with an excellent price) I thought a wind currents map idea along with big swirls would be effective as a quilting motif, and it was. This is fabulous thread as well, from Connecting Threads, and Avril loves it, as do I. I used Essential variegated thread, a spool that Preeti gave me a while back. I was pleased with the contrast of quilting motifs and of the two threads. I loved the way the chocolate brown leaf is not readily apparent on the rich red fabric, but is a kind of surprise in that huge 20" point area. I used Aurifil thread for the ruler work, and it stitched up wonderfully. Enter ruler work.Īnd a lot of it! Yet I wanted to do a little something other than line upon line upon line, and so a 'ghost' border idea was born, similar to that on Gillian's quilt. This one was okay with my swirling wind currents idea, but it told me I needed a contrasting design for the background. Most often when they are loaded on the frame. I was pressed for time, having had oh, just a few other life-type events requiring my attention of late, so I thought I would do an all-over quilt design and let the fabric shine. ![]() ![]() When something one has visualized in one's head, and sketched out on graph paper (a method I call SW7, still saving for EQ7 lol) comes to BE on one's design wall, it is quite the feeling. Well, some of the blocks required a little more thought and a little more math but still, this appeared on the design wall a little while ago.Īpologies for the Bella butt in the corner Cutting and piecing went together very quickly, and in no time I had a flimsy. I decided to make 10" finished blocks so my quilt would finish at 50.5" square. I also graphed out the paper-pieced point section. I graphed it out, so I could rotary cut and simplify the block, and then drew out my design. Tucked in the book was a templates pattern I'd saved from who knows where for the maple leaf block I love. I wanted some resting places for the eye. There is a leaf quilt in the book, but I didn't like the shape of their leaf, nor the fact that the quilt had borders, nor the fact that every single block in the quilt was a leaf. I knew I wanted the massive leaf to be red upon the cream background, and a leaf of all 18 other colours would float on top of that massive leaf. It didn't win, but the idea of superimposing one image upon another image has stayed with me every since. I made a quilt for my then guild's challenge. I've had Shadow Quilts by Slusser and Magaret since shortly after its release in 2000. ![]() Right from the start, I knew I wanted to create a shadow quilt.
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