July Hexi Challenge at the Niagara Modern Quilt Guild... this is how mine went down !
Our Guild is gently guiding us towards modern composition with the following list... not to be considered a score sheet except by those particularly competitive, such as the writer of this blog.
And I quote from our website:
A modern quilt could reflect the following:
Minimalistic
Negative Space
Bold colours/prints
High Contrast
Improvisation
Alternate Grid
Solids
Asymmetrical
You be the Judge !!!
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| Hexis destined to remain forever in a ziploc bag... freed from their prison by this challenge ! |
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| To use green... |
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| or purple? |
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| trying too hard? |
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| Add more purple... starting to let go... a bit |
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| Pinned to my fence... spent a lot of time staring at this, sipping wine, staring, sipping... I think my neighbours are used to me or don't bother wondering what I am doing now. |
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| Hmmm... more inspiration. Please disregard the nettles, I have given up my fight with them. |
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| Then I decide to move the quilt closer to the lupins and lay in the grass to take photos... I must make for an amusing if somewhat disturbing neighbour |
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| And finally quilted... started with a free motion hexi pattern sort of... then added repeating squares. I can play on my own quilt whereas clients are a little less willing to let me imagine on their work! |
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| my go to IKEA backing... and I managed to get the tension as close to perfect as possible... variegated purple thread on top and a khaki bobbin. I have a head lamp that I use when checking the back of the quilt on the longarm, no I am not kidding. |
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| "appliqued" hexis right on the longarm with swirly stitching... |
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| That is Ginger... of Ginger Quilts of course :) Hope you enjoyed your pictorial journey into my creative mind ! |
Fantastic journey Tania. Thanks for taking the time to show us how your mind worked during the process of designing your quilt. Good road to follow!
ReplyDeleteThanks Lorna :) The trick is not to get too carried away with the process and remember to stop and take pictures !
DeleteGreat hexi quilt! The new blog looks good, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks :) I will be moving the blog to my website eventually... I rely on my web designer for tech things like that. Hope the zucchinis are coming along!
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