Challenge Quilt

I belong to a group that is a take off on the famous 12 by 12 art quilt  group.  The challenge word was “sparkle.” We each have to make a 12 inch by 12 inch quilt showing our interpretation of that word.  The challenge ends next Monday. Here is my quilt….

 

I am not done yet, but thought that I would post a photo. All I have left to do is to sew the pieces down and quilt and bind it.

I am not a glitter person so I decided not to make something with actual sparkle, but interpret that less literally.  I teach Astronomy so what comes to my mind is stars.  I also love Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night painting.  So I decide to do a take off of that painting using the snippet technique that I always wanted to try.  I wanted the contrast in fabrics (blue and yellow) to give the appearance of sparkle.  I call it "Tribute to van Gogh."
The snippets are made by ironing fusible web to the back of fabrics and then cutting it into small pieces.  You can't believe how many times I fused little bits of fabrics to my iron because you could not tell which side had the fusible on it for some of the fabrics!  I had left over tree parts from a quilt that I never made so decide to use them up.

I won't get to quilt this until Friday. 

Chris

Realistic or Not???

I was going to make the canal house quilt in a blue and orange color scheme.  That is certainly not realistic colors for canal houses in Amsterdam.  My husband prefers a more realistic color scheme. Canal houses are generally red, black, white and brown.   I drew out the basic pattern in Electric Quilt 7 using patch draw to try out colors and fabrics before I start making the quilt.  I had never done patch draw so that was learning experience in itself.

At any rate here are some of the sketches with color. 

Orange and blue and not realistic.

Realistic colors 1

 

Realistic colors 2

Not sure which way I am going to go, but I need to decide before I start cutting up fabric.

Thanks for reading.

Chris