I'm excited to be participating in Project Quilting once more! I took a break for a couple of years, and I'm ready to join in again.
I love to piece, so for me the challenge usually involves thinking about how I can use the inspiration in a traditionally pieced manner. For this challenge, I started out thinking about using one of the photos I took of gargoyles in Paris back in 2010 as an inspiration. I found that picture, but then found myself drawn to another photograph, this one taken in the Louvre museum.
This is the Winged Victory of Samothrace. Otherwise known as Nike. Definitely a mythical creature! I started looking for quilt blocks, but didn't have much luck. Searching for "wings" I found a block called swing in the center, and almost passed by it, but then I realized that the chevrons it included look like a pair of wings!
Winged Victory is carved from white marble and the base (which represents a war ship) is gray marble, so that set my color scheme.
I brought out my Go for the cutting - I was a bit excited to realize that I had a die to cut those chevrons! (otherwise I would have substituted Flying Geese to make that shape). I do love not having to trim the corners on the triangles when I use the Go cutter!
3 comments:
Really pretty quilt. Your work looks very good.
Very nice!!!
Welcome back to PQ, Pamela! Nice job of working your inspiration around to a pieced design.
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