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Mardi Gras Quilt

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In honor of Mardi Gras, I present my Mardi Gras quilt.

In February, I took a two-session class at Sew Much More, taught by the talented and gracious Terri Waddle. The class instructions said to bring several single-color or tone-on-tone fabrics. In my stash of about a gazillion pieces of fabric — a slight exaggeration, but not by much — I usually have zero pieces that are plain or tone-on-tone. My tastes run to fabrics with bright prints: flames, lightning bolts, dogs, cats, and roses, for example, and anything batik or Asian.

What’s an art quilter to do?

Fortunately, my friend Shelly gave me a fat quarter set of — TA-DA! — some really nice single-color fabric for Christmas. Just in time! Once I saw how bright the quilt was with my new single-color fabrics, I named it my Mardi Gras quilt.

Jig Saw quilt pattern read to trace

Pattern ready to be traced

Fabric legend

Fabric legend, very important

Quilt half-done

Starting to come together

All pieces

Only one more piece!

Quilted and bound

Quilted and binding finished. It’s a miracle!

Tone Chart

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In my art class I’m working on tone, the variations from light to dark. In sewing and quilting, I would use the word “value” for the same idea. Here is my tone chart (charcoal on cotton paper).

Tone chart

10 values

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And here is Cat, having moved to the artist’s station next to me.

Cat as artist

Cat as artist

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Internet service update: Day 20 without our regular Internet service. I’m starting to make the rounds to places that provide free Wi-Fi, which means that when hubby invites me to breakfast at McDonald’s, sometimes I go. Yikes!