Sunday sketch #453
It’s been a minute since I played with a sawtooth star. Even though it’s a traditional quilt block, I still think it can be adapted quite easily for use in a modern quilt.
Sunday sketch #452
Did you ever play with stickle bricks as a kid? Those plastic bricks with interlocking bristles that you can use to build stuff. I don’t think I ever had any, but as soon as I created this week’s sketch, they were the first thing I thought of.
Finished quilt: Breakthrough
I’ve found the concept of negative space somewhat difficult to grasp at times, and some of the quilts I’ve submitted to the ‘Use of Negative Space’ category in QuiltCon probably didn’t really belong there. (The judges said as much in 2023, although Fanfold was awarded second place in this category in 2021.)
Breakthrough is my attempt to get it right – to make a design that balances positive and negative space, using colour to play with the push and pull of light and dark. The name describes the design itself and what I felt I’d achieved after finishing it!
