Sewing Saturday.... Project Quilting using " ALL the colors"

 

This week I worked on my project quilting challenge piece. (I didn't finish until after dark so the photos are not great)  It's like Project Runway, with quilting, we are challenged with a prompt, and it has to be from idea to finish,  done in one week! 

What does that do to a creative process?  I admit to making challenge pieces even for National challenges, within a week once I got the idea. Sometimes it's good to have a deadline so that one might stop dithering and just get 'er done... 

but it's pressure for sure. 

(I wanted to finish a very cool colorful UFO  for this challenge, but I'd done the center a few months ago. It will have to wait a bit longer for a finish)

I like to  have a unique take on prompts. I am a fan of color (big surprise considering my blog name) and bright colors. Someone with a more conservative take on quilting once commented when seeing my show and tell, "my my, all those colors in ONE quilt!" 

I am pretty brave when it comes to color so a challenge involving color sounded like fun. 

 I decided to showcase all the colors in a saturated, blended way... the way of cherrywood hand dyed fabrics. I have a couple bags sold as skinny strips ( from 1/4 inch to 3 inch strips) and decided to use the most variation of colors possible and make log cabin blocks with improvisation. 

  I have old paper piecing software that allows me to design and  skew blocks so I did an archway to showcase a special sun hand dyed fabric bought at Houston back before pestilence took over the world. 

I fused peltex stabilizer to the face circle so it's just taller than the rest of the quilt. Then appliqued the prepared circle to the rays.

  Then I made them work. Trim some, add more, straighten a line here, decide how many blocks to do... 

 In the binding process I chose a purple, which then made the whole piece look more purple! There was not a lot of purple in the blocks but...like in framing a painting, the mat can influence the colors in the piece. The backing was a wild colorful scrap

My fave master artist is Klimt... and I imagined my work was inspired by him in this. The only thing missing was gold paint... so in the quilting process I added YLI gold metallic threads only on the sunburst, my focus. It sparkles and draws the eye. Normally I'd quilt the whole thing in metallic! I used quiet, variegated hand dyed threads to quilt the blocks this time and loved the feel of it. 

It is small ish... 14" Wide by 17" long. The smaller something is the more each detail matters I think.

This challenge did it's job for me... it stimulated design work, it allowed me to sew color to color which is healing in a way, it totally engrossed my mind, and it left me with starter pieces for another piece. That's a great way to create a series. We learn from creating in series, changing subsequent pieces just a bit to see "what if" 

The rainbow scrap challenge color to use this month is red scraps. 

This is from last year and I think now is a good time to finish it, don't you? 

I read that each time you say  "yes" you are saying "no" to something else. I chose to say yes to two big challenges that take a lot of time. They only go on for a couple months and last year I learned a lot by doing them. I love the RSC as it gives me a focus each month. I have not chosen a block to make this year yet so for that I might finish some of last year's blocks.

But... next up is the center for my stay at home round robin... a paper pieced flamingo with lovely mix of batiks around it. I plan to post that if done, tomorrow, so please come back then! 

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