Earlier this year, I signed up for the MQG annual Michael Miller challenge. The fabrics this year are from the Glitz collection – gold or silver designs on black or white backgrounds. Each participant received 6 of these fabrics.
The entry deadline is quickly approaching – November 30th – so it’s time to decide what I will do for this challenge. I had several design ideas including (of course!) several that incorporated circles. The fabric was sent in fat-eighth cuts (approximately 9 x 21 inches), and these skinny widths somewhat restricted some of my design ideas. I decided on a simple circle design, with improv-strip piecing. Here’s my initial design.
I made freezer paper templates for the circle and background, then randomly cut strips and sewed them together to cover the freezer paper templates. The seam allowance of the circle has been pressed over the edge of the template, and will be machine appliqued to the background. Here it is on my design wall.
Now I’m debating with myself how to quilt it. I considered some sort of straight-line stitching, but now I’m thinking a spiral pattern starting from the center of the circle. I have some gold viscose thread that I think will blend well with all the fabrics.
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This looks great! I think the spiral quilting would be great for the circle, with straight line quilting in the background.
I would spiral the whole quilt starting in the circle and going off the quilt edge so to speak
What a neat design! I’d be tempted to play up the scrappy effect by tracing the circle and then stitching-in the-ditch on every third seam or so on the circle, and then using an all-over pattern on the background, but I think spirals would play well too. Just depends what you want to emphasize.
Love your design. I have no quilting suggestions! Both of yours sound reasonable – have fun deciding 🙂
maybe start quilting the circle on the outside edge and go into the circle. Might give it an edge
Your flat circle is almost ball-like due to the value change in the dotted print…..did you put all the light areas on the same side on purpose?
Very very interesting to see how you used up your fabrics on this art quilt. Up close I lost the impact so pushed mu chair away from the screen and WOW there it was very very 3D This is going to look so fabulous on the right wall, have fun with the quilting looking forward to seeing what you do. Cheers Glenda