My Creative Week Not a Square finished

 

"The Northern Lights are not square"  17" X 22"

The prompt for Project Quilting this week was "not a square" and I got so into my concept that's about all I worked on, but it's finished! The challenge is to start and finish a quilt in one week following the prompt. 

it started Sunday, from the improvisational flying geese, made from cut offs from doing the pineapple blocks last week. I added in other tiny triangles and just sewed, one after the other, watching colors grow, trying to get into the zen of it all. Until I made 7 long geese units, and said, Heyyyy they aren't square! 

what to do with these??? I pulled out two beautiful Caryl Breyer Fallert fabrics to put between them, and had the concept of Northern Lights. That meant I would have to not only piece the strips together with improv curves but the tops and bottoms of each strips set. Since they are different lengths, in order to keep the height differences...

Lots of design decisions... angle, color placement, distance between geese sets, and I chose two gradation fabrics so I had to decide when and where each one went. 

the center is pieced!

When I pieced the geese sets I didn't realize how this was going to look. 

Now I wanted something on the top and bottom... and decided these would work

time to quilt this! 

a mix of cotton, rayon, and mylar metallic threads would do! More decisions! 

a few close ups... don't forget these images enlarge when you click on them!

whee! color! I quilted in some more triangles top and bottom, stars mixing glittering strands with cotton for texture and depth. 

The binding was put on one side at a time, to match the fabrics, and not take attention from the center.

it was a real challenge to get finished, and along the way I started another piece I'm very excited about. I didn't want to rush that one I decided. It will wait for another day but I'm very excited about it. 

Both of these are forcing me to use special fabrics that are no longer available.  I haven't even started my SAHRR for this week but have an idea what I want to do... 

I didn't find out the color for Rainbow scrap challenge til too late to do a block, but the geese in this are done from lots of green scraps!

time to put away the unused fabrics, the threads back in their boxes, and start the next thing!

linking to these parties: 

Project Quilting 

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com

 slow stitching Sundays

patchwork Sunday   

oh Scrap Sundays

design wall Mondays at smallquiltsanddollquilts

http://www.inquiringquilter.com/ Wednesday wait loss

Midweek makers wednesdays  

http://www.myquiltinfatuation.com/ 

https://confessionsofafabricaddict.blogspot.com/ 

off the wall Fridays   

peacock party

tgiffriday

finished or not

https://myblog-lunchbreak.blogspot.com/ 

"The Northern Lights are not square"  17" X 22"

 

 

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