Overboard Quilt
71 x 86
There has never been a more aptly named quilt. I went overboard on every step of making this quilt! (This quilt was incredibly hard to photograph and it was impossible to get the colors exactly right. That blue is turquoise not neon but the garishness of the quilt is 100% accurate!)
There has never been a more aptly named quilt. I went overboard on every step of making this quilt! (This quilt was incredibly hard to photograph and it was impossible to get the colors exactly right. That blue is turquoise not neon but the garishness of the quilt is 100% accurate!)
The quilt started as a block of the month quilt designed by Terri Stegmiller when we still had 3 Creative Studios going. She planned it for 9 block....I had to make 12. I think it's perfectly clear that I gave almost no thought to color when I started making the blocks. I just picked up a pile of leftover hand dyed fabrics.
She planned the project with no sashing or borders. I had to work up 6 not-very-simple designs and selected the one with the most pieces for my quilt.
I was fortunate to find that batik bubble fabric in my stash to use to "calm" the hand dyed fabrics a bit.
When it came time to load it on Willie for quilting I had a lemon yellow wide back fabric that I decided to "tone down" by dyeing it orange.
I started the quilting with miles of stitch in the ditch. All of the yellow-gold areas are filled with a loopy pebble. The blocks are continuous curve and the batik areas are filled with pebbles. Yes. Pebbles. Overboard!
I will says that I enjoy quilting pebbles more than CC. I get the appeal of CC especially for people quilting customer quilts and for utility quilts but I'll never really care for the way it looks. SID will always win over for me. But I wanted to practice CC and I did a lot of that!
In the outer border I mimicked the diamond shape of the sashing and filled it with more pebbles.
It's done. I'm happy it's done. I think it's a very happy quilt.
A couple of years after I made it I found a perfect home for it with a friend who was receiving treatment for multiple myeloma. Heidi kept it with her when she was in the hospital for 3 months.
She planned the project with no sashing or borders. I had to work up 6 not-very-simple designs and selected the one with the most pieces for my quilt.
I was fortunate to find that batik bubble fabric in my stash to use to "calm" the hand dyed fabrics a bit.
When it came time to load it on Willie for quilting I had a lemon yellow wide back fabric that I decided to "tone down" by dyeing it orange.
I started the quilting with miles of stitch in the ditch. All of the yellow-gold areas are filled with a loopy pebble. The blocks are continuous curve and the batik areas are filled with pebbles. Yes. Pebbles. Overboard!
I will says that I enjoy quilting pebbles more than CC. I get the appeal of CC especially for people quilting customer quilts and for utility quilts but I'll never really care for the way it looks. SID will always win over for me. But I wanted to practice CC and I did a lot of that!
In the outer border I mimicked the diamond shape of the sashing and filled it with more pebbles.
It's done. I'm happy it's done. I think it's a very happy quilt.
A couple of years after I made it I found a perfect home for it with a friend who was receiving treatment for multiple myeloma. Heidi kept it with her when she was in the hospital for 3 months.