This month’s challenge for Island Batik was “Modern”
A modern quilt often has a lot of negative space
So I was brainstorming and of course I always think “Accuquilt” and then I thought of ONE block in the different QUBE sizes, so 6″, 8″, 9″, 10″ and 12″ all those added together equals 45″.
The requirements were any size!
So I was thinking another baby quilt! but 45″ was more than a WOF, so I just made up 38″ as a good width and then the 45″ long.
So I had that in my head
I got this pale grey neutral with my island batik box at the beginning of the year
and then also some solid black and I used all 5 QUBE sets and cut out pieces for star blocks using dies #1 (1) (center grey)
die #2 (4)corner squares grey)
die #4 (4) grey triangles
die #5 (8) black small triangles
and then I cut strips of 6 1/2″, 8 1/2″ etc of the fabrics
The star blocks are easy and start with flying geese blocks
here’s the 5 blocks all done
Then I sewed the strips together to the blocks at sort of random lengths and ended up with this!
I used BLACK hobbs batting in the quilt, just to try it and to see what happened with black batting and a light top! it’s not bad, but I should probably have used a neutral batting, but it’s for things like this it’s good to experiment I think and it still worked out!
I added black binding too
For modern quilts the quilting is also non-traditional so I decided to do a slight curve and just follow that across the quilt and let is change slightly as it got quilted more, so it’s a flow-y kind of design!
It was a fun challenge this month, I’m not really a modern quilter I don’t think, not traditional either but more of an in-between and also I love bright colors, so this was quite out of my element!
But I LOVE the result 🙂
I love it, Bea. I will be sharing mine in a few days. I used the Black batting behind the solid gray fabric and I love it.
Very pretty
Awesome job, Bea. Your use of the black batting is really interesting, it adds another element to your quilt.
Great quilt and definitely modern. I used the black batting last month and will this month with mostly black and dark fabrics. It was great with all but a paler yellow but it was on the back. I definitely think some of the batiks popped more with the black batt.
I love the texture of this quilting motif. The black batting behind a light background does add some interesting dimension. Very nice!
Fun quilt. Black and white quilts are always great, even for us colour loving quilters.
I love stars and modern quilts. Well done.
A great star quilt, love the simplicity, yet the striking, modern feel!