Working in a Series

Working in a series:  Negative Space

One quilt informs the next, by technique, color combination, or style or something else.  Here are four recent quilts and the story how one led to another.

I love wedges, especially improvisationally pieced wedges.  And I love lots of negative space.  My loves came together, see quilt #1.  Quilted with white thread in an edge to edge quilting pattern called “Eye.”

I have a friend whose favorite color is teal.  I’m still loving negative space and improvisationally pieced blocks and that led to quilt #2 and the pattern by Alexandra Ledgerwood @teaginny from the book Improvising Tradition #Improvisingtradition. Quilted with white thread in an edge to edge quilting pattern called “Surf.”

Another friend’s fave color is purple, which led to quilt #3.  I was playing with value and using prints mixed with solids, exploring some of the fun that purple has to offer.  Same pattern, this one was quilted with white thread in an edge to edge quilting pattern called “Ribbon Candy.”

Still having fun with negative space and not done with teal, I modified @teaginny ‘s pattern to change the height of the pieced blocks in quilt #4.   This one is quilted with white thread in an edge to edge quilting pattern called “Basket Weave.”

The beauty of working in a series is you can come back and explore another facet whenever the creative momentum drives you.  I’m probably going to have to revisit negative space sometime soon.  Have you ever worked in a series?  What did you learn?

Let me know what you think, I love to read your comments.

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