Thursday, October 8, 2020

Fragile

It's been 3 years since Brigitte Heitland of Zen Chic released her Fragile collection, and to this day it remains one of my favorite collections ever. I have made quite a few quilts with it, including Critical Sunshine and Paradox. And, it was because of Paradox that I have this new quilt.

Paradox was a quilt full of large flying geese made in the traditional way, and that meant I had a lot of leftover half-square triangles. I couldn't throw them away, so I decided to try to arrange them to see if I could come up with anything interesting. Happily, I did manage to arrange them in a manner that I found very pleasing, and after tacking on a wide border to fill it out a bit, I had in my hands a very nice throw-sized quilt.

I held onto this quilt top for about 2 years because I was just too in love with it to quilt it. (That statement made a lot of sense in my head.) But, I decided it's finally time. After some sketching, I decided on a design that both emphasizes the geometric lines of Fragile, as well as the theme of the fabric ... beauty in nature.

I always have a bit of trouble deciding what to do with borders, because I don't really like to treat borders like traditional borders. Instead, I prefer to think of it as a negative space. So I extended some of the quilting designs from the blocks out to the borders. I further divided the space and then filled the rest in with a mix of designs that reflect nature, such as leaves, feathery swirls, and pebbles.

The blocks had quite a bit of print on them, so I kept the quilting more minimal with dot-to-dot designs and straight lines.

After all this time, I'm finally done with Fragile, and I couldn't be happier with it. It really is everything I wanted it to be, and the best part is I didn't use up any of my precious hoard of Fragile fabrics to make this quilt, since it's made from leftovers!

9 comments:

  1. What a fun quilt, made with leftovers so you can still hoard the rest of the fabric...that’s terrific. The quilting is awesome and the back is a fabulous, unexpected addition.

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  2. The quilting is gorgeous. When I look at it, I can't imagine where you would have started. How you do it is amazing!

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  3. Treating the border as negative space gives the quilt a lot of life. Great choice to go a bit more simple on the prints, and it looks like you have a really great throw quilt to enjoy for this fall!

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  4. Beautiful fabrics and wonderful quilting!

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  5. Classic Liz quilting! I always get inspired when I see your finishes. Beautiful as always :)

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  6. Fragile is also on my sewing table. It sure is a wonderful line! Wonderful quilting! Beauty as always

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  7. Your quilting amazes me! It is so gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. This is really beautiful and I love your areas of straight line quilting.

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  9. Love how you extended the white smashing into the outer border with your quilting. This is gorgeous; you waited to quilt it exactly as long as you needed to. If you’d quilted it two years ago, you would not have been ready to come up with this design or to execute it so beautifully. Congrats on a successful finish!

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