SueG had good results in a class she took with Libs Elliott. Remember I took a class from her at QuiltCon? While I wasn’t excited about the class, I did think she was a good teacher.
Now I am taking her Chaos with a Twist class, which is a Zoom class, so I can do it from the comfort of my workroom. This class has about 4 sessions and after the first (non-intro) session, I am in love. This process creates super modern, super creative quilts out of basic blocks. It truly exemplifies why I love blocks. You have to take the class to get all the details. After going through Libs’ process I came up with the following design:
We started out on paper cutting and pasting and drawing with pencil and the quilt above is what I came up with after putting the basic blocks into EQ8.
I moved blocks around and recolored some and came up with two versions of basically the same quilt top:
I like the circles on the edges better than the chevrons (above photo). Having them in black looks a bit like a black hole, so I tried some aqua. EQ8 didn’t really have the turquoise I wanted, but you get the idea.
I was annoyed at some of the students who were afraid of various parts of the process, but everyone has to go through their own process, right?
I want to start cutting fabric now and there are two more classes before we get to that point! I might just go for it and see what happens. None of these blocks are difficult to piece.