“Big Slice” Quilt is Done

I am so happy with this 60-inch lap quilt–made using this block from Tara Faughnan’s Blocks 2 online class. I also used the palette she designed for this project, but added a few extra colors from my own stash.

Tara often gives us many designs using the block idea of each month, and she did this time as well. Different designs varied the number of slices in the curve and the corner block (from a solid square to this checkerboard). One variant that intrigued me was a spiky version, which I tried out and put on stretched canvas. (I don’t think I’m done with this spiky version yet…)

I wasn’t thinking jade green when I went to find a backing, but it’s perfect. And I quilted in a jade thread, which also worked well on the front.

I quilted with the pantograph “Bayside” as I wanted nice coverage and texture without overwhelming the quilt top.

So for now I’m all finished with the Blocks2 projects for this year. And I have to decide whether or not to take Blocks 3 next fall. I probably will, as these past two years have really enriched my quilting projects in all sorts of ways, to include learning lots of new quilting methods.