Sewing Notions - RR

This project was a round robin that began at Ruby's Inn. Kaye Evans put a group together and I signed on. We were to each make a certain number of the same block, swap them, and bring our completed quilts to Ruby's Inn to show the next year.

Sliced Quilt Challenge Group

This was my section of Bev's underwater sliced quilt. You can read more about it by following this
sliced quilt link.

Italy Through Window Blinds

I made this one for an art quilt swap -- my first. You can read more about it on my Dorinda Blog at: this Dorinda page, and this Dorinda page.
This page tells about how I designed it.




This is the original photo I used as a guide for my project. I love Italy, and this photo was taken there. I am always careful to only use free photo images on-line and to document its source. If you zoom in you will see the source.

Here are some close-ups.




My plan was to try a "convergence" quilt. This is a style of art created by Ricky Tims, and I wanted to take a swing at my virsion of it. The idea is to sew a project and then slice it up horizontally or vertically (or both)and place plain strips between the original project. Ricky actually prefers to use wild hand-dyes fabrics that have various colors in them for his "between" strips. It really adds variation to his quilts.

I traced and sliced the pattern first vertically thinking I would prefer it this way.



I felt like the tall buiding really shrunk with this effect, and so I tried horizontal strips. Wala! It was just what I was looking for. I liked how it really exaggerated the tall building.

My next step was to create a paper pieced pattern. Here is my base pattern with a numbering and code system that I'm certain only I could ever interpret. I'm not even certain I could follow my code to make another one in the future.

Next I copied the sections onto transparency sheets. All you have to do is flip the transparency over and you have a perfectly reversed image for paper piecing.