...a little rain must fall. Without it, no rainbows!
With all my productiveness in recent months, I didn't have a lot of projects hanging around. However, these little improv pieces were stumping me. It all started with these random colour blocks I made...
Eight blocks just wouldn't cut it, so I made the little grey block in the lower right hand corner. You can't have a rainbow without some grey skies, right? More white... I used a variety of white tone on tones that I had kicking around, as well as some Kona White. No surprise there.
Then it sat. I was stumped on how to quilt it. Q-D suggested pebble quilting it, but I just wasn't feeling it. The coloured sections are large and I didn't want them to go un-quilted. I have a board on Pinterest for just this sort of conundrum. In the end, I decided to take a little inspiration from my backing - another color pathway of Raindrops by Timeless Treasures. The tape is there to keep my raindrops rolling down the window/quilt more or less vertically.
Sometimes you just have to choose a pattern that allows for irregularities. My free motion quilting isn't perfect, but who says a raindrop has to have a particular shape?
I opted to bind it in white so as not to distract from the rainbow pops of colour or the quilting. Sometimes the binding isn't a design statement... it's just a way to finish those edges!
That raindrop backing....seemed fitting for this one!
Don't you just love a rainbow?J
I just love this quilt! Good for you and thanks for the ideas, great showing.
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ReplyDeleteHi there! Popping over from Adrienne's blog for Blogathon Canada. I love your rainbow quilt. It is absolutely stunning.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost caught up reading A Quarter Inch From the Edge... I've enjoyed every word and the visual art is wonderful! Love how this one came together :)
ReplyDeleteWow!!!!! Glad it has white binding. Stunning quilt!!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove it! (dropping by from Val's Tuesday archives)
ReplyDeleteI love the bright colors and bold design.
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