We have snow and very cold weather this week and all my meetings and social obligations were cancelled, so I have gotten in lots of sewing time. Here's my latest quilt:
The background is one of Uta's hand-dyed fabrics that she gave me a couple of years ago and I have been saving for the perfect opportunity.
My objective was to practice making very skinny pieced curvy lines. I have made many quilts with very skinny straight lines, but only one with curves, and I wasn't thrilled with that one. I liked this one better. I will probably give the fish machine-quilted eyes.
One of the things I've learned about the curved lines is that it's very difficult to predict how wide a finished pieces is going to be. I gave myself extra width at the start to make sure I would end up with the right dimensions, but ended up with too much. If I hadn't been working to size the fish would have had better tails.
I first thought this would be the "lines" quilt. But I realize that this could very well be the "blue" quilt. I reserve the right to re-categorize it!
Today I'm about halfway through my "sketch" quilt, and then I will do either "lines" or "blue" to finish out the series.
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Update: this one turned out to be "lines."
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