Twelve Quilts of Christmas – #10
This quilt feels so layered and dimensional, almost like you could reach through the grid and wiggle your hand through the holes and touch the background. Value is doing all the hard lifting to create this effect. The design is very similar to the quilt on Day 3, but isn’t it interesting how just a few changes renders it completely different.
The corners have been rounded but the binding is again on the straight of grain. I wonder how they handled the added fullness around those corners?
Can you imagine this quilt with a patterned fabric substituted where the cheddar fabric is? Do you think the quilt would have the same layered/dimensional effect? Would you use a large-scale print or a small-scale print?
The piecing on this quilt is really intriguing! The sashing appears narrower in the white circles than at the grey diamonds, and looks to attach at the circle’s edge. This is a completely disturbing thought in imagining recreating this gorgeous quilt! Those grey diamonds are barely there, and yet add so much! I think the solid cheddar is perfect, especially since the white circles are quilted with so much dimension. It’s as though they are a print! Adding a print might muddle the layered effect. I love this….but my piecing process would be much simpler than this appears to have been made.