A recently completed quilt has been on a photo shoot. We took this big baby (it measures 80″ square) with us to Zebulon last week when we went to see Slow Exposures (the photo exhibit described in my last post). The quilt posed on a bench, in a gazebo, and in front of a brick wall.
I called this one Jewel Boxes. The traditional tumbling block pattern, one of my favorites, has been surrounded by a vine of colorful foliage.
Inspired by a magazine cover with a similar quilt many years ago, I cut many rhombuses with a 60º angle and hand stitched them together to make the tumbling block. Then I assembled the blocks into rows and added a black border.
I planned the applique on the border in a free-form manner. After positioning the border vines, I cut leaves and flowers from assorted fabrics, laid them in place until I liked the color placement, and began stitching.
Dewey Godwin did the longarm quilting. He did a great job!
How incredibly beautiful! Brava!
That black border makes the colors pop, I think.