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Sticks and Stones

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I took an Art Quilt class at my local fabric shop, and the first lesson was on unity and repetition. I chose to try to make a blue and green quilt for my husband, using ONLY materials from my stash. I did finally have to buy another spool of thread to finish the quilting on this one, but the financial outlay for this quilt was a whopping $6.48 — everything else I already owned.

I named it “Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But I LOVE ORANGE” because as hard as I tried to go with just blue and green, I failed. My favorite color, orange, found its way in. As it almost always seems to do.

Here the blocks are on the design wall, in process:

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And here I am with the quilt (and our second place ribbon!) at the local quilt show last fall:

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Because I’m a math teacher/private tutor, I’m fascinated by numerical patterns. So I relied heavily on the Fibonacci numbers for the final design of the quilt. There are 40 blocks (5 x 8, which are Fibonacci numbers) in this quilt, the borders are 2″, 3″, and 5″ wide, and the back of the quilt (not shown, sorry), is a Fibonacci study of my own design. I will take this quilt back to the classroom when I start teaching again so that I can help students see the beauty in mathematics. I really enjoyed making this quilt, and it went together very fast — especially in comparison to The Green Albatross.


Posted in General on October 27th, 2006

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2 Responses to “Sticks and Stones”

  1. Ronda Says:
    October 28th, 2006 at 11:50 am

    This is one of my favorites.

  2. Amy Fruchtnicht Says:
    November 8th, 2006 at 5:59 am

    This is beautiful! I love the colors. I look forward to seeing more of your inspirational quilts. :o)

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