Thursday, October 31, 2013

Blogger Quilt Festival - Wall Hanging



Sticks and Stones is a wall hanging that I made for the Boston MQG's mini quilt challenge. For the past two years we've participated in the Lowell Quilt Festival with our own exhibit. Part of this exhibit has contained a mini quilt challenge. This was my quilt for it. You can see the rest of the quilts here. 


This quilt was inspired by Jackie Gering's Craftsy class. I've enjoyed making more improvisational quilts these days, although I'll never shy away from designing my own paper pieced patterns.


The gray background fabric made this quilt difficult to photograph though. 


This block was made as four different blocks. I started with a bunch of strips of fabrics based on the inspirational color palette.


I quilted this, offsetting a handful of straight lines, horizontal and vertical. Once I had a handful of straight lines, I quilted out from the intersection.

Here you can really see what I did for the quilting. I think it gave the quilt a really cool effect.
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1 comment:

  1. Where do I start? The improv piecing, the colours, the quilting?? Love it.

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