'My Complements' to You and Other Abstractions...

What started as an exercise to compare pairs of complementary colours (those opposite each other on the colour wheel) and the impact of varying amounts of each colour became a small wall quilt which I'm really happy with. 

The impetus to get it finished was the South Coast and Country Quilters' Guild show which I had entered it in - so, for once a deadline......

Pairs of complementary colours from my earlier hand dyed fabric.

I quilted it using straight lines  a quarter of an inch apart. I had considered straight line quilting but after watching a Craftsy class with Jacquie Gering (Quilting with a Walking Foot) the idea was confirmed, ultimately creating a modern look I think.

The back was cobbled together with some of the less successful fabrics - but they seemed to work - and a hanging sleeve as required........

 This small piece was my entry into the challenge for the same show - 'I See Red'
Another small abstract pieced together as I went along until it felt balanced.

I then quilted it with another of Jacquie Gering's straight line techniques using two focal points, which again I was very happy with.

I couldn't get to the show but was pleased I made the effort to enter. It was a good mental shift from the renovation and other life events tossed into the mix.

Sue xxxx

Why Do We Do It?

You often hear non-quilters making comments about cutting up perfectly good fabric and sewing it back together again.....

I'm beginning to wonder if maybe they have a point. Remind me - why do we do it? It may take a while to put all these bit together - so much for a quick quilt.

But he's worth it........

Sue xxxx

(Note to self - check for stray threads before taking photos.......)

In Other News

Another quick, litttle quilty progress report - just for a change of pace.....(it takes a while to put the other big posts together...)

I finally started a flannel quilt for my number one (and only) son using improvisational blocks which will be sashed and bordered with a chocolatey brown.

I'm using this book as my springboard.......

......to make a quilt based around this idea, however there will be fewer, but larger, blocks.

My flannel stash had most of the focus fabrics already in it - luckily, because I am still on a fabric diet.......

The method involves cutting strips and rectangles of varying widths and and sizes and joining them in a fairly random manner, then trimming blocks to size later. I'm working on 11" finished size in a 5 X 6 block layout and wide sashing strips. (In my head it all works.)

                    Love flannels......

Blocks will look much like this - fortunately precision isn't necessarily a part of it - it's meant to look scrappy....

Also - half-square triangles finally together.....I'm not sure I achieved the value shift I was aiming for but feel it will look fine once it is quilted.

     
              (It will eventually become a cushion.)

Sue xxxx