This quilt was designed in May 2018 during the Spark to Design workshop with Michelle Wilkie and the South Florida Modern Quilt Guild. This workshop was fabulous and I still use the design concepts I learned to this day. This particular quilt was designed based on a road sign photo prompt.
I left this workshop very excited about my original design and couldn’t wait to get started! This was an excitement I hadn’t experienced before. I did some odd quilt math (not pictured) trying to figure out the heights of my triangles. I got that going, but the angles I ended up working with ended up being an odd 67-Degrees, which is where the name comes from!
On my previous quilt I learned how to bury threads so I thought I would really put it to practice. I quilted 1-inch horizontal lines in the background, attempted my first matchstick quilting in the triangles and I also made my first attempt at quilting/designing in the negative space.
I entered this quilt into the Broward Quilt Festival and was surprised to receive 2nd Place in the Modern Single Maker category! This is my first and only quilt ribbon so far.
The Details
- Finished size: 60″ x 76″
- Fabric front: Kona Riviera, Pacific, Turquoise, Cypress, Pool, Bright Pink, & Persimmon
- Fabric back: Moda Grunge Hits the Spot in Vanilla (I think!)
- Binding: Pieced to match front in coordinating Kona colors
- Batting: Warm & Natural
- Thread: Aurifil
- Burnt Orange (1133), Med. Turquoise (4182), Dark Deft Blue (2780), Fuchsia (4020), Med. Blue (2735), Light Jade (1148), White (2024)
- Shows: Broward Quilt Festival, Broward, Florida, February 2018
- Publications: None
- Awards: Modern Single Maker, Second Place, Broward Quilt Festival, February 2018
