Sept 18, 2016
This is the fabric for the challenge:
The "rules" for this challenge are:
Create a block using the designated fat quarter that:
uses one design element from modern quilting
• Use of negative space to organize the subject and capture attention
• Minimal and simple in design
• Bright and graphic color palettes
• Improvisational piecing
• Alternate grid work or structure
• Modern traditionalism (a reinterpretation of traditional blocks)
• Exaggerated scale of block size or components of quilting
• Pixelization (distorting an image to digital composition)
is any shape other than a square
is no larger than an area of 400"
includes as many colors and fabrics as you wish to use
is not quilted (just show the block in it’s unfinished glory)
Although
everyone will get to keep their block, some of the blocks might just
beg to be combined into a larger piece. If that happens, the creators
of those blocks may choose to work together.
I used Excel and create a draft of my block:
About two weeks after I had made the design I started in the middle on the construction. I wanted the bars to "float" more so decided to add gray to each bar. I did not consider how this would impact the size requirement until I was done. It was more difficult then I expected since I wanted the weave of over and under and therefore could not construct in a standard method. Overall I'm pleased but it is too big.
To meet the size requirement I remade the design without the added gray to "float" the bars. It was a lot more difficult to make as the bars finish at 1 inch. Plus it is more wobbly. Oh well. I quilted this one 1/2" square and giving as the X-mas mug rug exchange.
Here are all those done by the group.
March 2017
I quilted this while at the Walker Creek retreat.
