The theme for Island Batik ambassadors for May was MODERN!
I don’t think my normal quilts are totally modern, they are not traditional either, more of transitional!
One feature of a modern quilt is a lot of negative space so I tried my hand at that or at least that was my goal.
I had these 4 winter fabrics as a bundle (we’re all thinking winter now in May, right??), about 1/2yd each, the requirements this month was 36×40 or bigger so I figured I’d make 10 strips (10 1/2” cut) and the applique something on them and I got out my GO dies and found I had this snowflake die that I actually never used, so why not!!
At first I ironed heat and bond on the back of scraps and I wanted to cut out 2 of each fabric and then see what I’d come up with.
I ended up just using 5 snowflakes and places them around the top
Then I appliqued with a dark blue aurifil thread and my darning foot on the machine and did a double line around.
Once I had that done I wanted to have more modern quilting on it, to me modern is more dense quilting!
So I did a different filler design on each strip color
On the white I did pebbles- snowballs
On the light blue I did a sort of circuit board design
on the blue deer I did a flame
and on the dark blue I did feathers!
Here’s the quilt all done!
I think it can go for modern! do you think so?
Beautiful quilt Bea, love the modern look! I'd better get to work on mine now!
That's definitely what I'd call modern, love the snowflakes.. great job!!
Wow very lovely quilt ..I love it so muchLove and hugs x
So beautiful, and your quilting is fantastic.
Already done…wonderful!
I am going to be starting a quilt for one of our granddaughters who is attending Murray State in Kentucky. The team is the Racers, so the wall quilt will have 4 horse heads. I have some questions about Heat and Bond. Does it make the quilt stiff? Does the needle get gummy? I used another product on a wall quilt for her sister and had both of those problems. Nancy A: rangerer@sbcglobal.net