Improvisationally designed by hand cutting shapes and configuring them on my design wall. I repeated the figures, scaling them up and down and skewing them. I reversed some of the color usage and created additional shapes in the ground or negative space, creating figure/ground tension. Using pinks and browns I pushed the use of a roughly analogous color palette

After hand cutting pieces of solid colored fabric, designing the composition, and sewing the pieces together I layered the quilt top with cotton batting and stitched many closely-spaced lines through the layers to add texture. This is called matchstick quilting.

I finished it with a sewn facing giving the quilt frameless straight edges. On the back of the quilt I sewed a fabric sleeve which holds a wooden slat (Included). The slat has a small eyebolt at each end so you can hang the quilt on the wall with two nails. The slat is slightly narrower than the quilt so the slat and nails won’t be visible when the quilt is hung on the wall.

75” wide x 85” high