Trapezoids at work! Quilted and bound…
I did a tutorial for this quilt when I finished piecing the top. It can be found HERE.
I wanted the “columns” of trapezoids to alternate between Business Fabric (texty prints, grids, organized dot prints, a lot of Architextures) and neutral solids, with a couple of color splashes for fun.
The inspiration was how my mind floats around while I work. There are periods of focus and periods of distraction, dreaming, spacing-out… You know how it goes!
I carried that idea into the quilting. Dense linear quilting for the WORK areas, and floaty circular quilting for the dreaming spaces.
A couple of rings of pebbles as a nod to the pearl bracelets fabric that makes an appearance in this quilt…
Happy little dreamy scallops…
The backing fabric is a 108″ wide Spot On Wide Circle in Steel. Pink castle fabrics has a bunch of different colors from this line – very handy!
The binding is Paper Clips in Gray from the Type line…
I hope ya’ll like it! I love it when a plan comes together – this is really exactly how I wanted this guy to look and everything turned out! Happy claps!!
jenna brand 
such the good quilt. those little quilted scallops are the best.
Thanks, Dorie! This was my first time doing those little scallops, but I LEURVE them and will do it again fo’ sho’.
I love the low tones and subtle pops of color you used. I love the wonkiness of it as well. Great job.
Thanks so much!
LOVE IT!!! I would love to try and use your technique to make a quilt similar to one of my favorite paintings – Paul Klee’s Highways and Byways – do you know it? Don’t you think your technique would be perfect?
Hey, Ann! Thanks for commenting. YES I know that painting and it would be a FANTASTIC quilt. I actually featured “Highways and Byways” in one of my Modern Art Lessons posts Sooooo cool.
Wonderful quilt! I love the texture of the prints and quilting.
Thank you so very much!
Gorgeous quilt! Thanks for sharing this beauty. I love everything about it.
Thanks so much for your comment!
The quilting is so perfect. You created an heirloom!
Aw – wow! That made me tear-up a bit : ) Thanks so much!
I really like your mixture of quilting — the blocks and fabrics are nice, too. Great job.
Thanks so much, Lucinda!