After happening across a page showing knitted projects that illustrated math concepts and seeing that one of the knits looked like it could easily be made into a quilt using half-square triangles, I drafted the idea into EQ7 to get the effect of pointed spirals around a central “post”.
I used free-motion quilting to create softly curved horizontal lines in the white to make it recede into the background. I left the red unquilted so it would pop out a bit, and I used ruler work to echo a few times inside the almost-black shapes to give them a bit more motion. As a contrast to all of the straight — or almost-straight — lines in the central quilt, I did curves, with more ruler work, in the borders and then added pearls and small groups of feathers. The texture shows up well on the back of the quilt. I made this with 1″ finished squares for the top. The quilt measures about 12.5″ x 15.5″ and was finished in November, 2016.
