The two quilts I’m showing for BQF this season are ones that my regular readers know well, so hopefully they don’t mind seeing them again!
For my “Modern” category entry, I’m sharing with you the cover quilt for my upcoming book, Paper Pieced Modern. This quilt is entitled Icy Waters and is meant to mimic chunks of ice breaking off of an iceberg into cold water.
It is a paper pieced pattern, made entirely from one block. I rotated and reflected the block, and played with color placement, in order to create a dynamic ombre.
The quilting was done by the fabulous Angela Walters – and her work is positively amazing! She did so much more than I expected. I love her work even more in person!!
You can read more about this quilt here. For now, way too many photos :)
Linking up to Amy’s Creative Side for Blogger’s Quilt Festival.
suh weeeet! the color fade thing is amazing and your quilting is top notch!
This is really great- captures all the things I think of when I think “modern”: great style, great design, great color use, great quilting, and great negative space. Really wonderful.
It’s stunning Amy – Chris :D
The design is so sharp and dynamic, I love it!
Stunning! What fabulous quilting too
One of my favorites- I will never tire of seeing it!
I love the ombre gradient in this quilt; it is so striking and crisp! Good luck in the festival. :)
It is fabulous! I don’t mind seeing it at all :)
I could look at this quilt ALL day!! Never too many pictures ;) Your design is so pleasing to the eye and then add Angela’s quilting? What a spectacular team the two of you make!! Wiping drool off of my computer now ;)
It’s stunning. I thought of ice the second I saw the thumbnail. Spot on :)
This quilt is incredible and that quilting is just stunning – wow!
I love love love this quilt! The design is amazing. It’s wonderful to see how you can play with the same block to make such an amazing effect. The quilting is absolutely stunning!
This is my favourite modern quilt of the Bloggers Quilt Festival, hard to believe it is all one block and the quilting is just like a snowflake under a microscope – absolutely perfect in every respect.
Wow. Spectacular quilt! Great design as well as use of color and negative space. And Angela’s quilting is just jaw-dropping. I love it! And Congrats on the book!
I love it!! Gorgeous ombre effect and the quilting is fab.
Wow, this is a beauty, and perfectly quilted by the master!
Icy Waters is STUNNING and named so appropriately! Good Providence!
Gobsmacked. Love everything about this quilt, even though it reminds me of my not-so-fave season, lol…but it’s my favourite colour, and just love the way your eye zips around and around, back and forth, and THEN Angela’s incredible quilting–I am in awe.
Truly incredible quilt- this is a work of art.
WOW! Beautiful quilt. Love the colors, design and great quilting!! Perfect!
Love the pattern. It looks amazing and the quilting, well, what can I say? No wonder why it’s a cover of a book!
Spectacular! It’s truly spectacular!
Stunning! The block, the colors, the name, the quilting – I love it!
Gorgeous! and the quilting is over the top beautiful!
Great colours, great gesign, great quilting. Love it!
superbe ensemble de couleurs ,très belle réalisation
Absolutely adore this – love those blues and whites! Great design, thanks for sharing.
And congrats on the book. I’ve never even attempted paper piecing, but I will when your book comes out!
Truly incredible!!!!
veeery niiice!
Wowsers, what a beauty! What’s not to love? The quilting, the color/value shift, the abstraction, the dramatic solid fabrics, the precise paper-piecing — all incredible.
The quilting just takes this quilt to another level. Amazing!
You won, you won, you won in the viewers choice!
Absolutely best quilt in show if you ask me!!!
congratulations,
Esther
Congratulations on the win. Viewers know a good thing when the see it.
Congratulations on your win in the Bloggers Quilt Festival! I love how you made such a complex quilt from one block!
Congratulations on winning! ☺You already know that I love your quilt and quilting style!
Hi Amy,
I’m the Editor at Make Modern magazine and we’re doing a feature on the Blogger’s Quilt Festival and I was wondering if we might be able to include your quilt in a gallery feature.
If you can email me it would be much appreciated.
Jane
This is just a fabulous quilt and I am intrigued by by the fact that it uses only one basic block. Can’t wait to see the rest of the quilts from the book.
Do you have the icy waters pattern in king size