Sunday, 6 December 2009
Mystery Quilt
The Popular Patchwork revealing my mystery quilt goes on sale today, so I can finally show you what it looks like. It is incredibly bright for a bed quilt, but I like strong colours. The material is called a batik, but it is more of a tone on tone pattern, which makes the quilt less flat than the solid colour would have. I don't make many large quilts, so I was pleased that this one was actually quite square when I checked it. The design is just from playing with colours, initally on paper, but then I used EQ6 to check it on the computer. It was useful to see as I could then make lots of small changes in the design quickly and so refine it. It is not my normal sort of work, but it is good to just make something different every now and then and to prove to myself that I can do a version of traditional patchwork.
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I chose not to follow this in PP (time constraints) but when I saw the finished item in the magazine it was so lovely. Well done.
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