I took a class about 2 years ago. We were to make 16 quilt sandwiches of about 6 inches, stack them, slice them, shuffle them and zig zag them back together again. Then we'd arrange the resulting 5" blocks into an art quilt. I so liked my black/turquoise theme fabric that it was with great dismay that I felt I'd trashed it. I filed the pieces after trying to join 2 blocks with a heavy and ugly black satin stitch. A challenge to make a quiltie shape made me drag them back out to see if I'd have a head start with one of the blocks. A bit of fiddling and I began to see an art quilt possibility. The colour wheel suggested an accent colour for the leaves and I had 'just' enough of a perfect fabric to make three. So below you'll find my possible start. I have no more of the theme or accent fabric left. Comments welcome! 8^)
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Elle, if you are able to post the photo again without the blue cast, people might be more inclined to chime in. So much of what you are asking relates to color that I thought it worth mentioning. Perhaps your monitor shows it differently; just a thought ...
Thanks for the tip. I'll get my camera fixed ASAP and maybe I can do one outside or something. My old monitor is also in dire need of replacing. But camera, first!
Are the blocks complete? I mean are the finished front and back and quilted? I did a reversible quilt a couple of years ago. It was fairly simple and you could have a great time playing with sashing color. The book was called Reversible Quilts: Two at a Time by Sharon Pederson.
Yes, they are little quilts with a little zig zagging to keep things together on the edges. I have done reversible quilt table runners. Thanks for the suggestion, I hadn't considered that.
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