7 Quilting design elements to add personality
Here you can see the chalk line which allowed me to match up the next row
Seams are pressed away from the mortar (sashing) to make them recede
from the bricks (focus fabric)
The house built into the bricks
Time for a ‘tour’ of the design process
and elements and the inspiration behind
it. Here are 7 quilting design elements to
add personality to this quilt:
the guy and I was working on the quilt
for the gal.
•• incorporating the interests of the recipient into the quilt top (duplicating
bricks and mortar and the house)
•• quilting the vine
•• adding a jean pocket to remember a
beloved family member and clever
label
•• using embroidery to ‘say what you
need to say’ on the quilt top and
backing
•• add special tags
•• making the story of the quilt special
by incorporating a little history
•• using a forgiving quilt backing
Although I never met the recipient of the
quilt, I was provided with a few details of
her likes which includes things that are
vintage, rustic and countryside scenery.
She’s studying architecture and is highly
creative. She would love to live in a real
functioning tree house, or a house in the
forest.
If you’ve been following QUILTsocial, you
know that Jen was working on a quilt for
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spring 2015
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on the challenge.
Hmmm – I was getting a recurring
theme here – houses! I also thought
about some of the other requests – no
traditional borders, try to highlight the
theme fabric. That was a lot of information to decipher and come up with
something creative.
The design
I wanted to keep the elements in the
quilt simple. I also wanted the elements
in the quilt to be subtle. And somewhere
in the quilt, I wanted a house.
We had received a package of 10-inch
squares of fabric to work with. Not a lot
of room for error and I really wanted to
showcase the fabric by not cutting it up
much.
Hmmmm – I could make the quilt look
like a brick wall and incorporate the
subtle elements onto the wall. Yes – that
would work, and I proceeded to cut the
10" squares into “bricks” that were 10" x
5". Absolutely no waste from the fabric
pieces.
Although I do have a few bits left over
which I’m making into another project
(a gift for Carla) which you’ll see in an
upcoming post.