Convex Illusions — finished

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. 😉

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