Aug 14 2009
Down a crooked path
Quite some time ago, I was on The Quilt Index and saw a quilt that was named moon in 4 phases or seasons or something like that. The name sparked a connection to the Drunkard’s Path pieces that I’ve been playing with a lot lately. It got me thinking about using Drunkard’s Path pieces in a way that would depict the moon’s phases. [I told you The Quilt Index was a dangerous place for me.] What about the quilt? I can’t even tell you exactly what pattern it was. It really didn’t speak to me. Not the pattern nor the colorway — just the title and I can’t even remember if it was the title of the block layout or just a title the quilt maker gave her quilt.
I played around in EQ6 and came up with a design I liked. I found some scraps to use in my pile of landscape fabrics. I wanted to make this up and test my skills at sewing multiple curved seams with the sewing machine. I felt I needed to get some practice in before I start on my many Drunkard’s Path pattern ideas. After doing this top and some units for the Rose Basket wall hanging, I can do them fairly quickly & accurately with only 3 pins so I think I’m ready. Here is the EQ6 design and my finished top.
You can see in the finished top that I ended up changing the position of the colors from my original EQ6 design. I didn’t like my pink color next to the orange-y, golden brown when I had it all laid out. The green looks better next to it. I don’t know what I’m going to do with this top yet. It may just become another practice piece for my hand quilting.
A very interesting design. It is interesting how the name of a pattern inspired you in a whole other direction.
I jut love your designs and what you share with us on the process. I think the drunkard’s path blocks are beautiful. My computer is in the shop and I so need it to work on an EQ6 design for my granddaughter’s quilt. Sigh…viruses are just terrible things.
I love EQ6 and I have several designs I did then changed the layout after, but the program really helps me with the thinking through of a project. I have lots of them on the computer still to put together, of course. I also have a thing about putting pink and orange together. Red and orange are fine, but I can’t look at pink and orange without cringing. I don’t even do it with my flower displays at work. We are a picky bunch!!!