Friday, July 15, 2011

Cartwheel

 I made this quilt for my cousin Vicki, who is a world traveler.  The center motif is from Puerto Rico and I had been making lots of compasses that year.  So, after making the cartwheel motif, I added the flying geese around it.  I wanted to include mariner's compasses with a lot of movement and sparkle.
 I liked the square in a square idea, and I wanted it to be asymmetrical and balanced.  So after a lot of thinking and drawing pictures I came up with this design.  I think it's the first quilt that I completely designed myself.
detail of Cartwheel
I wrote the label using black Sharpie permanent marker. 

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