With Bear’s parents visiting us last month, I wanted the house to look as perfect as possible, which meant that I not only wanted to get my quilting mess out of the way, but I wanted to be able to show off the finished product. I’m totally in love with it.
As a reminder, here’s the piece I rendered in quilt. I saved that picture to my computer and made the pattern in photoshop by doing a whole bunch of math. I divided the whole quilt up into 12″ squares so that when they were all sewed back together they would create the original image. Then it was a matter of figuring out the math of how big each tiny piece had to be to create the 12″ piece, which in turn would create the actual image. With my love of puzzles, it was a ton of fun to work out.
I wanted to keep the quilting simple, partly because this is a 12′ x 12′ quilt I did on my home Singer, but also because I didn’t want it to distract from seeing the image as a whole. I decided to do this little spiral square pattern to really emphasize the squares of color, and distract from the patchworking it took to get there.
I love Mondrian’s work as an artist, but also because it just screams out QUILT! to me. I think this quilt may be the first in a series. Imagine how great this one would be. Or this one or this one. And of course, the most iconic of them all, this one.
