Last summer, I took a great class with Sylvia Einstein at the Lowell Quilt Festival! The blocks are improvised as you go -- a style that appeals to me a lot. If you are wondering why I am making a Dear Jane quilt where the only things that are improvised are the colors, fabrics, and fussy cuts, I have no answer for you. I don't understand it either.
I made a handful of these blocks in Sylvia's class and the rest when I got home. That was last summer and early fall. In November, my mom selected the three red-orange blocks for a lap quilt. Today I made three more red-orange blocks. Right now, the blocks are all different sizes. I have to decide if I will trim them to a common size or find a way to use them as is.
BTW, the small orange square on the right is a piece of fabric from the Gates in Central Park in 2005. Christo and Jeanne-Claude's helpers gave away swatches of the saffron gate fabric to the people who visited the Gates. I have several of those swatches. It might be fun to make a quilt with either the saffron or taupe tree blocks and the saffron swatches. [Taupe because except for the saffron gates, Central Park was white and taupe -- the colors of snow and trees in February.]
Read about a virtual quilt made with some of these blocks here.
3 comments:
Love these blocks! Found you through Flickr. I'm a fan of improvisational piecing too. So freeing and fun. I'll be back to read some more!
i found you through flickr too :) i just love the way you have the blocks arranged here - when i first saw the pic i thought it was a finished top and i was struck by the organic placement of the blocks. i'm looking forward to seeing where you go next with them.
This is beautiful work.
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