My last post was more than a month ago, when I posted my finished ‘Succulents’ quilt. After that, I started working on a couple of mini quilts but didn’t post about them. At the end of July, I left for a 2-week trip to NYC and England with my sister Anne. We traveled with Craftours from NYC to Birmingham for 2 days at the Festival of Quilts. Then we toured through English towns and countryside, to London for 2 days, then back to NYC.
It was a wonderful trip! Here are a few of my favorite photos from our travels.
You can see LOTS more photos (including many many quilts from the Festival) on my Instagram feed and Anne’s Facebook feed. Look for posts between July 31 and August 11.
When we returned from our trip, I picked up where I left off, with an entry for the next Curated Quilts issue. The theme is Black & White.
This is my first time using the interweave (interleave?) process. I was inspired by these blog posts at threadlines, Quilt Inspiration and This Thing. I selected 4 different black & white fabrics, created 2 blocks and then sliced each block into 1 inch strips. I arranged the strips alternating from each block, then sewed them together.
In retrospect, I believe this technique would work better with more colors. With the limited palette I used, the diagonal line and the circle sort of got lost in the jumble of prints. I quilted diagonal lines with black thread on the bottom left and white thread on the top right to see if that would make the diagonal line more obvious. It did, but now the circle has almost disappeared. I’ll try this technique again in the future with colors.
I have a LOT of black & white fabrics, so I keep thinking of various ways I could use them in mini quilts. Here are 2 others I’ve made and submitted., ‘Curves’ and ‘Angular Heart’.
I have at least one more idea I’m planning to submit before the August 31st deadline. Check out all the other entries on the Curated Quilts website. There are already a lot of great submissions, and I’m sure there will be many more added in the next few days.
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Thanks for stopping by. Today, I’m linking up with these blogs – click on the links below, where you’ll find many other creative and inspirational projects.
- Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday
- Em’s Scrap Bag Moving It Forward Monday
- Love Laugh Quilt Monday Making
That interweave technique looks like Ricky Tims’ quilts from many years ago–I forget what he called them. It works well for combining a panel with a coordinating print, but I have not tried it for combining 2 pieced blocks. It is always worth experimenting, even if you don’t love the results!
Your quilts are lovely! It reminded me of a project I did with my students – only we used a picture and a solid colored construction paper. This is really pretty!
Your black and white quilts are quite striking! Thank you for the link to the Curated Quilts challenge website. I enjoyed looking at the various submissions. I’ve only ever done one black and white quilt, I wonder if it is time to revisit the idea?