Four-In-Art: Light In The Darkness: Triquetra

This quilt is my Quarter 2 contribution to Four-In-Art: Light in the Darkness.

The Gospel is presented as the Light to the People and Jesus as the Light of the World.

This quilt represents the Trinity in a Celtic Knot. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with the ring of eternity.

The gold lame represents the light.

I was directly inspired by the film The Secret of Kells

You can visit my personal blog *here* for a longer explanation of my inspiration.

I've Got The Blues: Efficiency

 This is my quilt for "I've Got the Blues".  I named it Efficiency: E-Fish-In-Sea.

I was directly inspired by the tiled floor at the City Museum in St. Louis, MO.

All the pieces are raw edge appliqued and fused.

A later of netting was put over it all and then quilted.

More details can be found at my personal blog: http://rachel-thelifeofriley.blogspot.com/

Rising Above the Blues

This final quarter in our Colour theme for our Four in Art group this year, the sub theme was "I've got the Blues" I guess this could be interpreted in a musical way or in the direction I have chosen, which springs more naturally to mind for me, working as I do in the Mental Health field. I've called my interpretation Rising Above the Blues.

I wanted to let the blues sink down to have the lighter shades rise to the top; the nesting tessellating blues subtly meshing and becoming distinct, which alludes to the thoughts and feelings that structure our moods, blue or otherwise.

Initially I was going to quilt it using an orange peel design but decided in the end to have the quilting denser at the bottom with the darker colours, lightening with the mood and colour and thinning out to give the idea of a more settled calmer mood with wavy organic lines. The bottom rows have six rows of quilting each, gradually decreasing to just one in the top row.

You can read more about this quilt over on my blog here

Purple Passion: An Improvisational Quilt

 Purple Passion:  It turns out that while I don't wear much purple, I actually had quite a large purple fabric stash.

 I wanted to try some improvisational piecing in purple with pops of a complimentary orange/red, and this is the result.

 There really is no "up".  I literally used one strip from each piece of purple fabric that I owned to put this little (well, medium) quilt together.

The red strips are actually pieced in, but the straight line quilting really makes them stand out.

 The quilting in each section goes a different direction.

 This quilt finished up at 21" x 36".

 The back gives a real nice picture of the quilting. (and yes, still needs a label)
You can stop by my personal blog for a few more details and pictures of this quilt.  There will also be an upcoming post about how I did improv, without the improv.