50.5 x 32
I like to imagine hoards of little liberal blues marching right up and over the evil felon rapist lying dark hump of our new president/administration. Yeah, that guy.
I made this one so quickly that I did not take a lot of process shots. It is a whole cloth with one black hump pieced into it. And then I pieced all the HST blocks, turned their edges under, and appliqued to the surface.
Here is the whole cloth with the white paper template for the hump. I have arrange some blue construction paper squares around it so that I will know how many HST blocks to make. This is design work at full scale!
Here is a closeup of the appliqued blocks.
The quilting took a while, but not too bad. I was worried that starting the vertical lines in the center of the quilt might mean that small errors repeated over time would add up to distorted lines at the edges of the quilt. So, I used my rotary ruler to check my accuracy after quilting every 4 or 5 lines. And, I was right, I was getting increasingly off. However, this allowed me to make small corrections and keep the lines mostly parallel through the body of the piece. YAY!!
6 comments:
I love this. Both aesthetically and thematically. And good job turning the edges on those HSTs, the corners look great!
Thank you very much! Glad you like it!!
This is lovely! Warm greetings from Montreal, Canada.
thank you!
I love the use of this very traditional pieced element -- the HST -- used as an applique in a very unexpected composition. These are all going to look so great when displayed together. This big black lump seems very hard to climb over.
Thanks! I love how this series has transcended (if that's the right word) the traditional start. The black hump is easier to climb when you have friends!
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