A new mini art quilt – 2023.10.28

Here is a 12 x 12 inch mini quilt I made recently. It was intended for a Quilting Arts magazine invitational challenge, but it wasn’t selected. But I’m sure it will find a place in an exhibit at some point.

I wanted to use bright colors with black lines on a chartreuse background. I experimented with circles and curves and squares, but the overlapping squarish shapes appealed the most.

While composing my artist statement, I searched my blog for some good wording about my love of chartreuse, and rediscovered this post from September 2012 (the third post on my blog!).

It describes my entry to the Quilting Arts “What’s your Signature Color?” reader challenge.  My answer was “My absolute favorite color is chartreuse; you’ll find at least a bit of it in almost every one of my quilts.  It’s a bold and complex color that adds punch to almost any color palette.”

It’s eleven years later, and I still love chartreuse, especially when combined with bright vibrant colors and a touch of black.  I named this piece My Signature Colors.

I used some of my favourite techniques – freezer paper templates and raw edge seams covered with bias tape. I sewed the center pieces together, then inserted them into the background.

The seams are covered with skinny black bias tape. I machine quilted an overall tilted grid with chartreuse thread, and the edges are faced.

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I’m linking up with Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday.

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