Saturday, July 15, 2017

Alice's Space Quilt: Negative Space



An article about modern quilts inspired my Space quilt.  The article listed many of the hallmarks of a modern quilt—improvisational piecing, straight-line (usually in a grid) quilting, high contrast, and much NEGATIVE SPACE.  Of course, those last two words jumped out at me!  Ah ha, I thought, I won’t go the moon and stars and planets route, but instead will construct a modern quilt.

I twice slashed diagonally a large square of dark blue fabric, from the top to the bottom.  Then into the two openings I pieced two other strips of batik fabrics.  Then I once again slashed from the top to one side, and into this gap I pieced yet another batik. 

After then squaring up my background fabric, I layered the quilt with batting and another piece of batik fabric.  Then I straight-line quilted into the negative space, following the lines of the pieced-in sections.  Not really a grid, but oh well!  I bound the quilt conventionally, using the same fabric as the background.

This quilt is simple, but I thoroughly enjoyed the process and look forward to someday making a larger Modern Quilt.
a close-up showing the quilting lines in the negative space




9 comments:

  1. Hi Alice ... Great Quilt, and a perfect commentary on "Space !" I love the simplicity, the straight lines, contrasting colors, and of course the quilting. I also enjoyed your narrative !

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  2. You definitely should make another modern quilt. Quilting Arts may be moving along like the art movement, from traditional to realistic and now modern. It's all so exciting. I wish I'd thought of negative space!! It's so powerful. How clever Alice!

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  3. What a perfect inspiration for our challenge! The design is wonderful and the quilting is completely appropriate to the quilt. I love it!

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  4. Love everything about this quilt Alice, from the color to the quilting, but especially the simplicity that so boldly conveys negative space. I agree that this would also make a fabulous full size quilt.

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  5. love your angles and fabric choices

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  6. Thanks for the explanation of your process. This quilt shows that you are ready to try a bigger modern quilt. The colors and angles are really appealing in this quilt!

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  7. I really like your interpretation of the theme

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  8. That is so very very pretty...I think of it when I need to dream

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  9. I was hoping someone would use negative space. You probably remember I used that for a pun quilt.😘
    It is great

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