Pieced, quilted, bound and labelled — it’s done! I’ve mentioned before that I’m not pleased with the way I quilted this, but finished is good, so I refuse to wallow in regrets; I’m happy that it’s finished. The pattern came from KwiltArt, where you can find a wide variety of quilt designs that feature optical illusions. They’re amazing!
This overall view of the quilt, held up by my mostly-hidden husband, illustrates how effective the illusion is in this pattern — I love it! (As always, clicking on the photos will enlarge them.)
This is a portion of the center. See those circles with designs in them? That looked so good in my plan — not so much on the quilt itself. :S I probably should have stuck to stitching in the ditch between each row.
There are two sets of pieced triangles surrounding that central portion. The first set is mostly dark, and the second is mostly light. I quilted them similarly with just minor differences. Again, not the wisest choices.
I still like the outer border, which you can see here (sort of — black on black is hard to see!), along with the narrower inner border and the corded piping I added next to the binding.
As disappointed as I am with the quilting, I did get some very good practice using rulers to do free motion quilting, so there was a silver lining to the story. 😉
8 thoughts on “Convex Illusions — finished”
very nice. Want to piece mine too?
LOL! The piecing was pretty straightforward — it was the quilting that drove me nuts. 😉
Ooh you are brave. I would have just quilted in the ditch or a straight line design. Beautiful quilt design and as always you aced the piecing.
Take a look at Geta Grama, she does opticals and does all the twiddly quilting (twiddly quilting is still on my to do list). Thinking about it, designing the machine quilting to enhance the piecing to me is the most difficult part of “the journey”.
Thanks, Suzanne — I do think I *should* have done the ditch stitching instead of the circular parts in the center, but that’s life. I’ve seen some of Geta Grama’s things, and they’re gorgeous; I’ll have to take another look for some inspiration. I definitely agree about designing the quilting! *Doing* it isn’t so difficult, but deciding — that’s the trick! 😉
This is beautiful! I have a friend that wants me to quilt one of these for her. What would you have done differently with the quilting? Thanks for any input!
Thanks, Terry. I’m actually not really sure what I’d do instead! I had a difficult time deciding on the motifs I did use, but I don’t think they were really effective. I suspect that just resorting to very boring SID quilting would have been much better than my own choices, though I do like my border treatment and wouldn’t change that. HTH!
very beautiful. i want to attempt an illusion quilt in my old age. (grin) could you tell me where you got the pattern and or the number? thank you so much
Thanks, Shirley! As I said in the post, I had the pattern from KwiltArt. If you will click on that name in the post itself, it’s a live link and will take you to the site. The pattern is called Convex Illusions. 🙂 Have fun!