Natural Corridors

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I have finally finished my charity quilt that was completed as part of our guild’s Spoonflower Fabric Challenge.

The rules of the challenge were:

  • Any child sized quilt in any design goes
  • Use the FE Spoonflower fabric bundle
  • You can add up to 3 solids

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I loved the color palette. I knew exactly the quilt design I wanted to use. My first quilt design ever – “Natural Corridors“.
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This design was based on a concept that I studied in Ecology. In nature, a corridor is a link of habitat, generally native vegetation, which joins two or more larger areas of similar wildlife habitat. Corridors are critical for the maintenance of ecological processes including allowing for the movement of animals and the continuation of viable populations.
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The solids, I used with the FE Spoonflower bundle, were Kona white and pickle. My math was a little off, once I increased the pattern to lap-size, so to compensate I added the scrappy row at the top. This mistake actual is my favorite part of the quilt. The quilt top was perfect, as it took me 3 hours to make up, and I was limited on time.

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I kept the backing simple by using tangerine Crosshatch (Carolyn Friedlander) wide back fabric. The binding I actually used two fabrics. This chevron fabric was used to bind the lighter scrappy row at the top and then a darker blue for the rest of the quilt. I think it works and balances out the quilt well.

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Details

Name: Natural Corridors
Design: Designed by me
Fabric: Solids: Kona White & Pickle, FE Spoonflower fabrics:

Dimensions: 54″ x 56″
Quilted: Cary Quilting Company

I am so excited to give this to our challenge charity – Raleigh Methodist home for Children and to a child who I hope will love it.

If anyone is interested in the pattern let me know and I can work on releasing it before the end of the year. Linking up with Amanda Jean @ Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish it up Friday.

 

Blogger’s Quilt Festival: Moorish Pyramids

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My second entry for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival is my Moorish Pyramids quilt.

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This quilt was inspired by the walls in this photo of the Moor’s Castle in Sintra, Lisbon, Portugal. The pyramid shapes, and how the sunlight exposure and shadows fall is so intriguing. I translated these elements into the quilt.

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This photo makes me smile every time, as it reminds me of a very unexpected, unplanned vacation that landed up being one of my best vacation’s ever!! Now I have a quilt that captures the memory.

The selected a variety of fabrics from Katarina Roccella’s Indelible. I love the grey, navy, mustard and teal combination – my favorite at the moment. When contemplating the binding, the contrast of the bright pink spoke to me. Surprisingly, as I am not a pink person, it’s one of my favorite things about this quilt.
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The back I pulled in some of the design elements from the front but changed the pyramid shapes into arrows. You can also see the quilting a little clearer on the right. I used straight line quilting mostly, but on rows 2, 3, 6 I wanted to highlight the pyramid shapes a little more. I   followed the point of one of the pyramids in these rows, and this gave that cool triangular quilting pattern you see. Moorish_Pyramids_Back

Details

Name: Moorish Pyramids
Design: Designed by me
Fabric:  Indelible, Katrina Roccella, Art Gallery Fabrics
Dimensions: 60″ x 60″
Quilted: Using walking foot and with various grey Aurifil 50wt threads; Straight line quilting.

I hope you all love this project too. Please go and vote and/or participate.  You can also nominate quilts for viewers choice award. It’s great to see all the submissions.

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Blogger’s Quilt Festival: Altitudinal Ecosystems

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Man, this was harder than I expected to choose this time around. Can you believe it, I have finished 16 quilts this year (4 mini quilts, a few I haven’t shown yet).

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For now though, this quilt means so much to me for so many reasons, hence the choice to submit it for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. The inspiration for this quilt, came from a photo taken of Crater Lake (by Anne @ Play Crafts). I loved the composition of the photo and the colors were so great!! I knew almost immediately, that this design was going to be a simple abstract view of Crater Lake.

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This was the first time, I could use my knowledge of Biology and Math together with my creative side. I was so ecstatic.

Did you all know that I have a MSc in Marine Science where I studied ecology. I don’t use that degree practically today, but it was one of my favorite experiences in my life. In ecology, we learned about how plant species change as altitude increases, giving you different zones/ecosystems. That is what the lines represent from the bottom lake, the two plant zones and then the snow-capped mountain.

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This design while simple which allowed me to be creative with the quilting but I still wanted to not take away from the design. For the mountain, I keep the straight lines which represents the stability and solidness of the mountain, while the air I played with ultra curvy lines – like air waves/wind. Lastly for the lake, as it was not symmetrical I did not do circles (my first idea). I choose to do more of an improv. variation straight line patterns to get the movement.
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Details

Name: Altitudinal Ecosystem
Design: Designed by me, available from the MQG site (if you are a member)
Fabric:  Kona Solids (White, Shadow, Pickle (which was provided by Robert Kaufman), Wasabi, Prussian, Oasis); Back: Woodland in Pine, Indian Summer, Sarah Watson, AGF, Kona Solids (White, Shadow, Pickle, Oasis, Prussian)
Dimensions: 60″ x 60″
Quilted: Using walking foot and matching Aurifil 50wt threads; Ultra wavy lines, Improv. Irregular block shapes, Straight line quilting.

To top it off this quilt was selected as Quilt of the Month for the Modern Quit Guild this year. It is available as a pattern, if you are a MQG member. I will be releasing soon via craftsy, also to non-MQG members.

I hope you all love this project too and I love sharing in the Bloggers Quilt Festival. Please go and vote and/or participate.  You can also nominate quilts for viewers choice award. It’s great to see all the submissions.

AmysCreativeSide.com