Accidental Use of Negative Space

Things were moving along swimmingly...... 

I was enjoying the almost magical process of joining the Quilt As You Go rows. 

It did cross my mind, that once again I had fallen short of my mandate....to use more negative space. 

 I was also reveling in the fact, that the backs of QAYG quilts are usually interesting.... just as a by-product of the technique itself

 Then as I lifted up the quilt I realized I had sewn one of the rows on backwards!! (The far left row should be facing the other way)

 And there you have it.....a quilt with a fair bit of negative space and all by accident. 

I pulled out my trusty seam ripper and pulled it apart, but not before taking a picture.....I just might have some potential in the negative space quilting zone after all.

Back on track and hopefully finished soon.....now for some binding choices.

First Finish For 2013

My Not so Negative Quilt came out of the wash in lovely riot of wrinkles, I wish I thought of my own wrinkles that way.

 

 Since my shocking discovery, of only one finished quilt in 2012, I'm determined to complete some of my many, many works in progress. Having started this quilt in November 2010....I was almost giddy pulling it out of the dryer this morning.

I used some of the blocks in several of my QAYG tutorials so it might look a little familiar to some of you.

I just couldn't resist photographing it beside my tulips (an all time fovourite flower of mine) .

 

Quilt Back 

Feeling in a mellow mood, I actually did the binding by hand....giving it that last little bit of loving. But in all honesty, I'm so slow it will be back to machine binding after this.

My Not So Negative Use of Space

Almost every definition of modern quilting that I've read uses the term Negative Space as a strong characteristic of modern quilting......I keep failing on a regular basis. I just can't help myself.

A lovely fellow quilter/blogger once said to me "I'll keep talking until somebody shuts me up." She'll probably recognize herself, but hey I'm not naming any names or passing judgement.....I'm not exactly known for being a woman of few words myself.  I'm the same way in the quilting world. I love negative space but I just keep adding more colours and fabrics....perhaps somebody should stop me.

 

 I love silence but maybe I love words more.....I love negative space but maybe I love filling it more.

I spent my week working on my Not So Negative Quilt......hmm, does that make it a positive? Is it still modern with it's lack of negative space? Lets not put modern quilting in a box....whoops maybe we already have.

 

 I had plans for negative space midway through this project, last year (note, this Work in Progress is a few years old).

 

 but look at what one walk in the park did for that idea....inspiration struck and more colours and fabrics had to be added.
 

 

 

Now, back to joining those rows together.....