For My Next Trick......

I finished the Little Farms quilt for Lyen's baby on Monday.  I did a photoshoot with it around the house.

 For National Dog Day, I asked McGee to model for me...……...

My next quilt?  You are going to love this...……………..

This quilt was begun in a Modern Quilt meeting.  Daisy Auschoung was the speaker.  She does a lot of modern quilt

s that are in the Modern Patchwork magazine.  Very graphic, you should check her out.  She was our President for a while before she moved to Norway.

Her program that day was to talk about people like Joseph Albers who creates with color blocks.  You should check out his art at:

Joseph Albers Foundation

Our project was to divide into groups of two and work with scraps of solid color fabrics.  Daisy had hung batting on the walls to use as design walls.

I was paired with Alice and together we put the block together.  I later added the grey borders.

It was interesting to see the difference in concept and design the other teams came up with.  Each one was so vastly different.  I have not seen any of them finishes and this was several years ago, before the flood even.

I took this photo this morning.  Changed it to black and white.  I used a small ruler and a pencil to audition  several quilting lines.

I would like to do this on the long arm but I am not sure how to do all the angles I require.

A few months ago I bought Jacquie Gehring's book Walk  that is like a workshop in machine quilting lines using a walking foot on your DSM.

I think I need to read that at night while I lay out the quilting lines on this booger during the day.

Hopefully you can see the lines on the copy.  You can always click on it to enlarge and it should be easier to see.  If you do this, make several copies so you can audition several sets of lines.

Even so, it is subject to change I guess.  It is a pretty large quilt.  But it should be a spectacular one!



(PS Just so you know, this is a printed out photo of thw quilt, not the actual quilt with quilting.  I am not that far into it!  

And this quilt is pretty large, maybe 80x70.  )