It's a wall hanging 20" by 30" but here it is lying on the floor. The modern small group in my guild decided that we would all make a smallish wall hanging with the common element being the use of grey fabric. Our small group has been meeting for just over a year . We are still getting our feet wet trying modern techniques. I used the pentagon impov technique from 15 minutes of play by Victoria Findley Wolf . It was a lot of fun using up some of my grey scraps. I started out with closely set straight line quilting but the quilt was shifting a lot and I hated it so I picked it all out and opted for minimal quilting following the angular lines of the piecing. Maybe I should have done more quilting but the deadline was looming so I decided to just finish it.
I did most of the improv quilting during the winter. I've always had a hard time in winter when the sky is grey . This winter as I was piecing the grey scraps around the bright centres I realized that I could look for the light within the grey and perhaps change my attitude about the greyness of winter. It seemed to work. Whenever I felt oppressed by grey I shifted my thoughts to feel embraced by grey. I'm hoping I will be reminded of this when I look at the wall hanging in future winters. I'm sharing this finish at TGIFF which Laura is hosting at Quokka Quilts.
7 comments:
Hi Lisa, I think it is gorgeous! It is very inspirational and a great way to use up some scraps! Thank you for sharing
Its a wonderful mini! I get mixed up on the spelling of Gray or Grey too! I'm not sure there is a right or wrong one!
Very nice! I write "grey".
Thank you Iris. I'm glad you like it.
It's been explained to me that grey is the colour, Gray is a surname but to be fair either works! Love the pops of colour in this, especially the yellow centre!
A very lovely improv quilt Lisa. And I like the thoughts behind it and what the bright centers symbolize to you. Grey or Gray? I never know, and use both freely.
Thanks for all your comments.
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