I wanted to wait until my partner had received my Fab Little Quilt Swap (FLiQS) quilt that I mailed out this past Monday before posting it here. This morning it finally arrived at Carol's (mamacjt) house. Whew! I'm glad that it made it okay.
Remember my original inspiration for it? It was Carol Taylor's Moonshadow quilt (you just have to go over there and look at it ... it's gorgeous!) Since my partner, Carol, loves bright colors and solids I thought that they'd look great against a backdrop of solid black and white. I'm not too big into plain solids so I added what I like to call solid textures. If I had hand-dyes I would have used them too. I didn't add all the churn dash blocks in the black section as originally planned. It just didn't look right. Of course this is as close as I can come to improvisational piecing. There was a detailed to scale plan and the only thing I played with were the choices of colors and fabrics. Here's the sketch and the stack of fabrics:
After lots of piecing came the quilting. Of course I then decided to do lots of dense straight line quilting. It looks great but the amount of time it took to tie knots and bury all the loose ends about drove me crazy. Here's a picture of the last bit that I was working on Monday before I added the solid black binding:
I also needed to make a label but wasn't sure if I had time to make a fancy one. Instead I photoshopped one and printed it on ink jet cotton fabric and just fused it to the back of the quilt.
Here's the completed quilt:
The back:
And a bit of detail:
I opted to use one of Superior Threads Rainbows multi colored thread for the bright pieced center area. That way all of that section is more unified. The black and white are quilted with black and white threads. In the end I decided that it didn't need any beads or other embellishments and now I very desperately want to make another one to hang with all of my little wall quilts.
One last look:
