I have been having a wonderful time participating in the Wholecloth Design & Execution Class being held online at MQ Resource. The class is being run by Adam Chenevert who is an amazing and inspirational quilter - check out the link to see some of his amazing work or visit his blog.
The concept of the wholecloth design course if fairly simple - you design 1/8th, mirror this image which becomes 1/4 of your quilt. Put the four quarters together and you have the basis for a whole quilt. I have spent numerous hours in glorious Melbourne autumn weather drawing and re-drawing my design. With the help of a computer savvy 13 year old I have even managed to mirror and flip my design in photoshop.
This is the 1/4 design of my wholecloth quilt.
The following is the complete design - there seems to be something quite magical about symmetry in quilting designs.
Adam also loves to quilt many different background designs on his quilts - I have included lots of pebbling, cross hatching and straight line quilting around the feather motifs.
I have ordered some Kaffe Fassett Shot Cottons to quilt this wholecloth design - whether or not I am up to that task is something I will find out in due course but I am certainly looking forward to the challenge.
Stunning.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see how you go.
I'm off to check out Adam's blog now.
Andi :-)
An amazing quilt design! Looking forward to seeing the results!
ReplyDeleteAdam is amazing isn't he. I'll have to check out his blog again - he didn't have anything new there for quite a while so I hadn't popped in recently. How do you plan to mark your quilt for this beautiful design?
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful Karen. Looking forward to seeing your design on Kaffe's shot cottons.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Karen! Adam is always a great read and a phenomenal quilter. Very generous of him to share his talent. And MQResource is just The Best! I hope you'll take pictures as you go on this so we can see how it's coming. And congratulations for doing this!
ReplyDeleteWowwee! Lots of feathering happening there! I think it will look stunning on shot cotton.
ReplyDeleteBEAUTIFUL! I Love whole cloth quilts.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful... hope to see it has a quilt soon!
ReplyDeleteThat's fabulous looking! Someday I hope to be a good enough quilter to take a pattern like that and make it look marvelous on cloth. Great creation you've made there!
ReplyDeleteFantastic Designing!! Cant wait to see it on fabric. Am curious as to how you get the pattern onto fabric though?? I think another award winning quilt coming up!!
ReplyDeleteVery neat, I love the feathers, I can't wait to see it finished!
ReplyDeleteFantastic design!!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see how you go.
Fantastic design!!
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see how you go.
My goodness thats impressive. Whish I could teach Andrea to show me how to do that...she is 13 :) I have to draw all mine by hand at times...do you make that with one 'whole' piece of cloth or is it in quarters ?
ReplyDeleteSorry - My son Andrew (Andrea's father)has been using my computer...and forgto to sign off...the one above is really from me
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