Friday, March 21, 2014

Finished Quilt: Meridian



Meet Meridian..





The idea for this quilt came while I was knitting a scarf. The scarf had sections of stripes and each section carried one color and added in a new color. For example, in the scarf pattern,  the color changes looked like this: AB, BC, CD, DA. 

It was such a cool effect and I started thinking about ways to apply it to a quilt design. The blocks are made of simple rectangles and the color choices and color placement become the most important part of the design.  I chose all solids for the quilt top because they naturally have a crisp, graphic quality to them.

It took several days for me to decide on these colors and that was after doing mock-ups on the computer, pulling out every color card I own, and looking through many, many examples of radiant orchid online.


Kona colors from left: Regal, Dark Violet, Violet, Petunia, Orchid, Sky, Bluebell, Slate

This reminds me of a color gradient exercise in art class where I painted blue on the left side of a paper and yellow on the right. Then gradually added a little of each color to the opposite side until you find a true 50-50 mix of blue and yellow (green) in the middle of the paper. The same idea is shown here in an art instillation by Peter Wegner.





The backing is Sun Print by Alison Glass in Fuchsia. It was kind of perfect. I loved the colors and the scale of the print. It's fun to have a free flowing backing with a bunch of tossed, botanic motifs to an otherwise graphic and stark quilt.





I quilted it with a wavy stitch on my machine with grey Aurifil thread. It adds a softness to the otherwise hard, precise lines of the piecing. It amuses me that if you squint your eyes, it's like a radiant orchid mirage. 





QUILT DETAILS
Name: Meridian
Original Pattern
Measures: 42"x54"
Fabric: Kona in Regal, Dark Violet, Violet, Petunia, Orchid, Sky, Bluebell, Slate and Sun Print by Alison Glass in fuchsia
Thread: Aurifil #2606

Read more about this quilt here

I'm linking up with the Pantone Quilt Challenge, Radiant Orchid hosted by Anne of Play-Crafts and Adrianne of By The Windy Side.




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27 comments:

  1. This is stunning! Love the design and love the specific colors you chose - just gorgeous. Great work, Adrianne : )

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    1. Popping back over to say congratulations!! I *love* your design and I'm so happy for you to have won!

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  2. Cool design! You achieved a nice gradient!

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  3. Love your design Good luck in the contest

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  4. I love this, especially the gradient of colours :-)

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  5. I'm totally crushing on this quilt!!! Your color choices and placement are so perfect...I want this quilt!!!!! Now I'm going to have a go at it with my ombre fabric...should be fun and a bit easier for me to get the same effect you did. WOWSER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. Gorgeous ! Isn't it great when one creative pursuit inspires another? I love the gradient and that you added blue. Really nice work. I am jealous of that wavy stitch! My machine doesn't have that!

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  7. This is absolutely stunning!! I love it Adrianne!!! Great job!!

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  8. I stumbled across this picture on pinterest and had to find your blog to comment. So beautiful!

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  9. This turned out so beautifully, Adrianne! I love the way the colors interlock and push and pull your eye through each color. It's deceiving, because it seems like such a simple design, and yet there's so much to look at!

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  10. Very cool. The colors and movement are perfect.

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  11. Such perfection in simplicity! I really really love this one - thanks for playing along with the challenge and making something so gorgeous. Oooh, and that backing...<3

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  12. Wow! You did a fantastic job using colors in this quilt . I love the design!

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  13. I love this- and I voted for you :-)

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  14. I found this on Pinterest and it's really neat. I love wavy quilting.

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  15. I LOVE this quilt. I voted for you too. And congrats on the win!

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  16. Congratulations Adrianne on the win! Yay for you!

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  17. Fantastic quilt! Cool inspiration and the quilting is great! Love it! Congratulations!

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  18. Congratulations - Your quilt is lovely. Great use of Radiant Orchid.

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  19. Congratulations!! It's a really beautiful quilt!!

    -Soma

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  20. Congratulations! Cool to hear what inspired this luscious beauty and love your choice of Konas to make it.

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  21. found you via the challenge. Congratulations on your win. It is gorgeous

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  22. Hi!!!! Yaa!!!!! Congrats!!!!!! It is beautiful!!!!!

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  23. Congratulations! I love it!!! I found this challenge a little to late, but your quilt is beautiful!

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