Jessica Toye, a member of the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild who blogs over at Two Hens Cluckin', designed three quilts using the Marblehead Global Brights collection. The quilts will hang in our booth at Quilt Market next week, but in the meantime we're sharing them here because we think that they're fantastic and they'll provide inspiration for the Marblehead Challenge.
Q: What attracted you to the
Marblehead Global Brights fabric?
Jessica: I love the way the
Global Brights read as almost solids. I'm a fan of the modern quilting
movement and there are TONS of solids used there. The Global Brights
are such fun, happy colors that really played well together and really just
spoke to me.
Q. How did you come up with the
designs?
Jessica: I wanted to create a few
quilts showing various sized pieces of the fabrics. Dresser Drawers shows the biggest chunks of
each fabric. Library Stacks is designed to create a quilt with a little
more movement. Several of these fabrics have a flowy feel to them and I wanted
to explode that idea into a quilt design. Sunset Boulevard was designed to resemble a
rainbow or spectrum.
Q. Which quilt do you like best,
and why?
Jessica: Sunset Boulevard is my favorite of the three. I
feel it has the best balance in composition. It is the cleanest and most
dynamic design of the three. It was also the most fun to make.
Q. What surprised you about these
quilts?
Jessica: The quilting! The thread I used
on all three quilts is the same color. (Superior Threads: So Fine! #50 - #421 -
Marigold) It's really interesting to do so many quilts from the same materials
and see the huge difference in the final outcome.
Q. Tell us a bit about the
machine quilting on each quilt.
Jessica: Library Stacks is a simple meandering stitch. The piecing portion of this
quilt had so much going on that a simple all over design was necessary to
finish it off.
When I was deciding how to quilt Sunset Boulevard, I was watching Angela Walter's
Craftsy class, Machine Quilting Negative Space. Angela uses a tile design in
her class that I really wanted to try. I thought it gave the spectrum piecing a
fractured look. Almost like the rainbow of the piecing was being shattered into
various pieces. Within the tiles, I used Angela's swirl design to contrast the
sharp angles of the tiles and linear feel of the piecing.
The quilting on Dresser Drawers was done in another of Angela Walter's
quilting designs, her wood grain motif. My intent was to stick with the dresser
idea and add a bit of motion to the quilt's appearance.
Delightful quilts
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