Design Concept

In 2021, as part of my ongoing effort to simplify my work, I decided to design a series of pieces that combined freeform zigzags, circles, and a few freeform curves. This piece, completed in early February 2022, is the seventh in the series. I drew the whole design in Corel Draw, added some digital painting, and had it printed by Spoonflower.com. I graduated many of the shapes from color to color. As I arranged the shapes in the design, I made the areas where they overlapped into separate shapes and chose duller colors in those shapes to create the illusion that all the shapes are transparent. I quilted the black lines, and the outlines of the circles with a regular sewing machine foot using heavy, #30 top-stitching thread. In the rest of the quilt, I used free-motion quilting with many different colors of thread and several different patterns, including circles, spirals, zigzags, and echo quilting. The binding fabric was designed especially for this quilt and the backing fabric is from my Gradations collection for Benartex.

Exhibitions:

• Quiltfest Greenville, Greenville Convention Center, Greenville, SC, April 28-30, 2022, (Second Place: Modern)

Publications

• The Quintessential Quilt: Commemorative Program of the 2022 International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX, p. 73