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About the Quilt: This is my improv paper pieced curves mini-quilt from the Amy Friend workshop.
How Alternative Grid Work is used: No grid whatsoever – all improv curves
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About the Quilt: A black and white quilt-as-you-go quilt. The windows are winter white which makes it look like the lights are on.
How Alternative Grid Work is used: Rather than placing the houses in rows and columns each row moves to the left or right of the row below.
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About the Quilt: Amy Friend inspired me to use paper piecing, gradation of color and to use the alternative grid work. I modified a paper pieced coffee cup that we used for block lotto to make it into a mug. I was inspired also by a photo of a poster of a large coffee cup so I added the oversized mug. It was fun choosing the browns including espresso and capuccino. The quilting is simple but could be steam rising up.
How Alternative Grid Work is used: The blocks are not in line with each other. Every other column is jogged up by a half from the other blocks so that some blocks run off the edges.
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About the Quilt: Free form crazy
How Alternative Grid Work is used: Grid work was not part of it.
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About the Quilt: My quilt is made to look like someone dumped a bag of diamonds onto a lush piece of velvet.
How Alternative Grid Work is used: The varying sizes of blocks and placement gives the impression that the gems are randomly scattered on the quilt.
About the Quilt: I took Latifah Saafir’s class Put A Ring On It during QuiltCon this year. You could do the quilt the original way or draw and color the quilt in your own design. I decided to draw and color the quilt myself which was fun but also challenging. I drew a few drawings before I was ready to cut and sew. A fun project with challenges and lots of curves.
How Alternative Grid Work is used: I wanted some of the rings to stand out and some of the rings to appear as though the were in the background. I chose vibrant colors for the stand out rings and wanted these to be on the diagonal. I chose cream and white for the rings that I wanted to appear more in the background.
About the Quilt: This quilt started with the 3 Fractured blocks from the National Quilt Museum’s 2019 sew along. In this pattern you cut a piece of fabric improv and then swap out some of the pieces with new fabrics. I love the dash of pink and the black and white against the hand dyed green fabric. I also love stripes so I decided to frame the blocks with the green and white striped fabric and was so happy that I had enough to bind it with the same fabric! I used a lot of negative space and had fun quilting some ghost blocks and doing some free motion quilting and a little bit of ruler work also.
How Alternative Grid Work is used: I didn’t use a grid. I set the blocks at random angles so they didn’t look like blocks as much and I used the rule of thirds for placement.
About the Quilt: The quilt takes its name from the print fabric by Alexander Henry by the same name. The solids and texture prints were selected to complement the print.
How Alternative Grid Work is used: It started out following an approach for ‘planned improv’ from Carole Lyle Shaw but wasn’t creating the right look, so it went experimental from there. Blocks ere of variying sizes and shapes to create the non-grid layout.
About the Quilt: 28 X 28 wall hanging that was foundation paper pieced. Most quilting lines are 1/4” apart.
How Alternative Grid Work was used: Was assembled in vertical rows where every other row started out with half a block instead of a full block. There is lots of negative space and the binding is the same fabric as the background.
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