Yesterday, I looked at six of the quilts in the “Modern Quilts – A Twist on Tradition” category from the International Quilt Festival.
Let’s finish them up today…..
This quilt was inspired by Amish star quilts, but the background fabric was inserted in much of the center piecing, meaning that the start floats.
And once again, look at this astounding quilting….
Christa Watson is an amazing machine quilting educator and you should check out her website….
This is what she says about this quilt…..
I love the quilting that she added…..
And, speaking of quilting…..
This quilt was a machine quilting challenge to incorporate pieces from LeMoyne Star blocks. She made one large one, put it on point, and then twisted the setting.
That left lots of negative space to be filled with thousands of tiny stitches….
This quilt was inspired by the “Diamond in a Square” block. Each narrow piece in the squares is like the facets of a cut diamond.
This final quilt was used in much of the advertising for the show……
She based the quilt on a traditional Half-Square triangle block, but with an improvisational twist!
Tomorrow we will start looking at the Abstract Category. There were an amazing number of quilts in the category and some were truly awesome.
Don’t miss it!!
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Stunning! I especially like Spinning Song.