I owed a favor to a family at school whose children I teach music, and this little art-quilt is the end result of that favor.
Most of the techniques in this piece were new to me. It was my first time piecing curves! Delightful. Also much simpler than I expected. It was my second time ever doing appliqué and the first time to design a font. I started first in my notebook, then cut a template from paper, then transferred the letters to fabric. The quilting was simple wavy lines, though even that still needs practice. I’m not great yet at stitch length consistency. I used a variety of thread colors to go with each section of the color palette … but forgot to take a picture of the back.
The fabric is 100% Kenyan kikoi which I love to work with in quilts — in any project, really. It’s soft, colorful, reversible, and the fabric weave is always straight! So easy. My kikoi stash is running pretty low though so I’m not sure what I’m going to do soon. This little project was improvised entirely from scraps. I started by throwing a bunch of cuts up on my design board and then staring at it until ideas began to emerge. I really love the final product (though the pics don’t do the colors justice). I only hope that the family who received it loved it even half as much as I do.
Creative Joy 