Shift:
I took a class this fall on Shifting Perspectives. Mostly it appealed to me because of the mathematics, but I also liked the idea of designing the entire quilt all by myself.
At our first class, we designed our own blocks and determined the size of my shift. I chose a 12″ block that I would shift three times in each direction, thus making 16 blocks total. I chose fabrics that night, and took them home to wash and prepare them. The next week we came back and cut the odd-shaped pieces for one or two blocks, with supervision (this is the trickiest part). Then we had several weeks to make all of our blocks before coming back to cut (the second trickiest part, and definitely the most nervewracking) and shift them.
Here are my 16 blocks, unshifted.
Then I started messing with the uncut blocks, trying to determine if I wanted to cut them at all. They did arrange into some pretty neat configurations:
Then I started cutting and shifting the blocks. This involved cutting a specified amount off the right side of all the left-column blocks, and that same amount off the bottom of all the top row blocks. And then shifting the cutting amount down and right as you progressed through the 16 blocks. Easier to DO than explain, but anyway.
Here are my 16 blocks, shifted and cut, but not sewn…
And sewn:
Then I used the cuttings from the “shifts” to create a border for the quilt:
It’s not very big…. Maybe about 38″x48″ if even that much. The interior blocks finished out at 7.5″ wide, so the center section was only 30″ square when I was done.
Kinda weird. Makes me think of Prismacolor pencils. I had fun doing it, though!
December 4th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
I love it! The colours are great. I saw a shifting perspectives quilt recently and really liked the concept. Love your take on it!
December 6th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Wow, very colorful and vibrant. Gets me motivated just looking at your photos! I;m a green girl and your use of it really appeals to me!
Thanks for sharing.