Austin Modern Quilt Guild Austin, Texas, United States
This quilt is sparkles and sunshine and symmetry. All the curved shapes you see are appliquéd, and I couldn't resist the combination of metallic linen and metallic thread to accent them. I tried out a new idea when making the half circle shapes on this quilt. I started with squares of fabric and hand appliquéd 2 layered circles on top. I put another square on top of this, sewed 2 diagonal lines, and essentially made 2 big half square triangle units. (P.S. It feels very wrong to cut your carefully hand appliquéd blocks in half, but it all worked out in the end). More orange-peel-esque curves were layered on to make the pink and blue appliqué circles crossing through the middle.
