Another quilt made for a Curated Quilts Mini Challenge! This quilt was made for the HST/Subtraction Issue and was not accepted (if you have been reading about my various quilts in the gallery, there is a lot of rejection!). I chose the backing fabric because it was made shortly after quarantine started and these looked like the coronavirus spike proteins to me.
Initially and as usual, I didn’t like the color palette. However, after I mocked up this design in Adobe Illustrator it began to grow on me. There was a method to my color placement as seen below. Each color was matched up with a grey that had a similar value and placed in the opposite position in the design. There was one exception where I made a swap, marked by the X’s, because the Silver and Breeze color values were too close. I ended up liking this design so much I made a larger version and two as gifts!
The Details
- Finished Size: 12″ x 12″
- Fabric Front: Kona Peony, Breeze, Orangeade, Sunny, Silver, Graphite, Shadow, & Charcoal
- Fabric Back: I’m not sure it was from my small stash
- Binding: Faced using the same backing fabric
- Batting: Hobbs 80/20 Bleached
- Thread: Aurifil Dove (2600)
- Shows: None
- Publications: None
- Awards: None
