With profound apologies to Miles Davis the great jazz trumpeter, and one of his most famous albums, I give you "Kind of Blue". I swore I would never do a tumbling block quilt again, but that was last year, and I guess my memory is getting foggy so I thought it would be a great way to use up an excess of blue solids, in other than another of those pesky nine patch patterns; not wanting to stir the ire of Poly Ester. I am happy with this quilt, but mostly that it is finished. The points match as perfectly as can be. The colors are very nice gradations of blue from the lightest to the darkest, and a bright blue binding. But doing all those inset points, in a large quilt, is enough to drive a person over the edge. I had planned to make it much bigger, but I ran out of patience with all that fiddly insetting, of points. I know you can do the pattern without insetting a lot of the points, but that involves the addition of another seam into the perfect symmetry of the hexagon pattern, and that is something I did not want to do. I just decided to stop at the size you see here, and call it finished. It is lap sized and if you have a cold lap, this will warm it up as it is encasing wool batting. The size is 60" tall x 55" wide. But if you turn it sideways, it is
55" tall and 60" wide. I honestly don't think there is a right way to look at this pattern, as there are a lot of views contained in the pattern. They seem to pop in and out. My wife says, she gets Vertigo when she looks at it. I get happy when I look at it, as I know that it is truly the last time I am doing this pattern, at least this year. I sit here listening to the album of very good Jazz, by the same name, and think Miles might like the image of the quilt. Very Cool, and all that jazz.- posted
14 years ago