I've been sewing up a storm when it comes to my Blooming 9 Patch Project. This is the first half of the quilt (the strips are sewn together from the center outwards). In truth, I've actually finished sewing the first half, but haven't had a good opportunity (or location) to take a good picture of half a queen-sized quilt.
While pinning the strips together is a little mind numbing and fussy, the results make the effort worth while. My horizontal seams are really incredibly good (at least for me... I am sure there are spots where an experienced quilter would be less happy with) and the effect is to really make this quilt look like it is made up of pieced together blocks instead of strip pieces.
So far, this project has also been very visually inspiring for me. The bright yellow morphing through a progression of colors out to a deep blue edging. I imagined this quilt with "fire" in mind, the dark colors meant to evoke both the blues that sometimes show up in flame as well as the embers and it still reads that way to me. One of the first times that I've used color to try to express a theme -- and feel that I've done it successfully, at least to my own eye.
While pinning the strips together is a little mind numbing and fussy, the results make the effort worth while. My horizontal seams are really incredibly good (at least for me... I am sure there are spots where an experienced quilter would be less happy with) and the effect is to really make this quilt look like it is made up of pieced together blocks instead of strip pieces.
So far, this project has also been very visually inspiring for me. The bright yellow morphing through a progression of colors out to a deep blue edging. I imagined this quilt with "fire" in mind, the dark colors meant to evoke both the blues that sometimes show up in flame as well as the embers and it still reads that way to me. One of the first times that I've used color to try to express a theme -- and feel that I've done it successfully, at least to my own eye.
That is stunningly beautiful. I can't wait to see it finished.
It is lovely. You are doing a great job with the colors.
Wow! That is beautiful!
Gorgeous- those colors are amazing!
It's amazing! Imagine sleeping under a work of art.
This is incredible. I love your color progression as well, but I'm a sucker for small geometric designs made into not-so-geometric wholes. Does that make sense? Pointillism is dear to my heart, if that clears things up any.
Anyway, fantastic!