Let’s continue working thru the Minimalism category from QuiltCon.
This first quilt is another example of how thread color can change fabric color……
The fabrics are all the same in the top and bottom halves of this quilt but the bottom half has been quilted with a dense neon yellow quilting thread.
This quilt…..
….represented a decision by the quiltmaker to break from the original plan. It makes me wonder what the original plan was??
I REALLY like the “sort-of-straight” background quilting lines…..
It adds a lot of movement to the quilt and would have been SO much easier to quilt than completely straight lines!!
NOTE TO SELF…… straight-ish lines are good too!!
This quilt took the “tucking” technique to the extreme……
….but the technique made this quilt a textural delight…..
I hadn’t noticed until I posted this photo, but I love that the tucks were sewn with BROWN thread in the bobbin and yellow thread in the needle!! What a good way to add a tiny bit of color!!
The fabric selection MAKES this next quilt…..
Funnily, in her artist statement, she said that this gradation fabric had been put into the “what was I thinking” pile and was planning to donate it before when realized that it was perfect!
SEE….you should NEVER get rid of fabric!
The surface design in this next quilt does all of the heavy lifting….
The fabric is one color, but the gradations are made using perle cotton thread worked in a fly-stitch…..
That is a LOT of hours of stitching!
The precision of these tiny strip-sets is what makes this quilt….
I found this quilt to be visually appealing….
She pieced and quilted the background first and then added the applique ovals and some hand-stitching.
This next quilt is another great example of transparency…..
This sunbeam was inspired by a background on a Delta Safety Video!
I have always said that inspiration comes in strange places!
Finally for today, I appreciated this quilt on SO many levels…..
First is the cheery yellow. You can’t beat that!!
Then there is the fact that all 16 of those circles were INSET pieced in one black background piece.
Then there is the name…..Limoncello!! YUM!
Come back tomorrow and we will finish up the Minimalism category!!
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