Woohoo! I'm finally finished with my round one quilt! Here it is in all its glory, hanging over the sofa:
I cannot begin to thank my fellow common threaders for all of these blocks. There's simply no way I'd have been able to make a quilt with such unique blocks on my own. I think it's very true to the Gee's Bend and Nancy Crow inspirations. The whole wall seems alive with it hanging there.
You can see I went with a version of the second option I posted a bit back. Staggering those columns was a huge challenge for me. I lean very much toward symmetry and this quilt was intended to get me away from that. I borrowed a quilting idea I saw on Amber's blog several months ago. Originally, I considered quilting wonky, concentric squares in each block. Amber posted a quilt with wonky, vertical lines and I knew that would be perfect here.
The final size is about 44" X 60".
I'm working on gathering up the materials for round two and should be posting about it this week.
Again, thank you, thank you, thank you!!
10 comments:
It looks so wonderful Wendy....giving me some motivation to finish my 1st round quilt (it's almost king-size - ugh!) :-)
It is gorgeous! It looks so beautiful. Nice work.
I love this quilt. Makes me want to put my other projects on the back burner and work on this.
Thanks for the inspo
This is gorgeous--a true Gees Bend-esque work of art.
stunning, wendy. i love the layout you chose. i'll bet it's even better in person.
yes indeed: lovely layout!
It turned out very striking!
This looks amazing! I love the block layout you used and the size looks like it's perfect for over your couch.
This quilt looks great!
It is very grand with the black background! WOW!!!!
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