Planning as I Go

As usual, my current quilt started with a high contrast piece of hand dyed fabric. This is all I had of it.

What could I do to best show it off?

The additional fabrics added above provided interest, but the original fabric swatch still seemed rather straight forward.

It was kinda hard to judge against white. I knew I wanted a blue background, so I added some to the design wall to help me judge the overall look.

I split the featured print and splayed it apart. I thought this added energy, plus some interesting negative blue space.

I began to audition additional colors and fabrics. What about a mass of orange on the right and across the bottom? I placed folded fabrics to consider options.

My orange fabric was limited and I knew I’d have to work with the shapes I had: sharp triangles.

That didn’t seem objectionable. However, I did get rid of the vertical yellow point near the center.

As you might imagine, there was some fiddly stitching on this one. It was actually easier than I expected and I’ll show you some about how I did it in the next post.

My next question: what to do with the lower left.

Ellen Lindner