Thinking through this theme, I had all kinds of ideas. I thought I had settled on one idea until I was paging through a quilt book one day and a whole new idea came to mind. I quickly stitched up a quilt top using an orphan block I had made from scraps another quilter had given to me. That quilt top sat on my design wall while I considered how to quilt it. I decided that I should do a practice run first, so that I had a plan when I tackled the larger quilt. Oddly, the practice quilt is my favorite of the two, although the block in the actual quilt top has more motion in it (I think).
This is the practice quilt. Motion is shown in the quilting, which was done with my walking foot. The quilt is 14.5 inches square.
The quilting was done with Aurifil 40 st thread in Mustard (#5022) which works well with the pickle green fabric in the block and binding. The different angles of the quilting creates motion in the quilt. The quilt backing is just a solid white/black print which also has a bit of movement or motion to it.
Okay, getting back to the actual quilt I was planning for this theme. Same idea, just larger. The block is made from some scrap improv units given to me by another quilter years ago. My daughter says the block is "wild", so I'm taking that as there is some motion in the block!
While I had planned to do similar quilting for this quilt, I changed my mind the more I looked at it. Once again I was paging through a quilt book and saw this idea for adding quilting, so I thought I'd give it a try.
The first one has a lot of motion in it and I really like the quilting. The motion in the second one is interesting. Center of interest in both is good and adds motion. Good ideas for both.
ReplyDeleteIt turned out great, Wendy. With all that negative space, the small pop of color is dramatic.
ReplyDeleteI really like both of these. You have a found clever way of showing motion and it works really well in both even though they are quite different :)
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