Happy New Year

 My first finish of 2022!!  xoxo

Looking For Asymmetry in the Final results

 Here's my two attempts at working with the latest AHIQ prompt, symmetry/asymmetry. Or better yet, what I ended up with after winding through the process journey and hoping something would come up looking asymmetrical. While symmetry comes a lot more naturally to me, asymmetry does not fill me with terror or otherwise stop me in my tracks. I went with asymmetry mostly because it is the one that I'm least likely to attempt at first pass.

Ode to Joy

What I did figure out while tentatively {very open-endedly} pursuing this challenge, is that I do NOT like to start out with the idea that my quilt has to be either/or. It's like a huge, red caution light that I just didn't have the strength of will to shove aside at this particular moment in time. I kind of felt like making that line in the sand before the quilt was started would just shut off all the creative flow for that particular project and that was that.

A new, scrappy baby quilt

Hmm... Me-thinks this is a prompt that deserves further exploration in the future. For the most part, I can now see that I generally end up with symmetry, or as something Julie so wonderfully described as gently off-balance symmetry. Rarely unmistakably, true asymmetry. It's something to think about! You can read much more about the adventure of these two quilts over at my blog, Quilty Folk.

Block in the Box in Purple

 My fabric, friends sewing, shot cotton/batiks and love.

A friend quilted it simply as a gift .

It has my very favorite yellow fabric in it.

Love

Improv Holiday Extravaganza

This  time of this  year, I have found a "lost" improve Christmas quilt I made.

I thought I would share it with all of you xoxoxox

 

Help Needed for my String Tulips

 Hello! Thank you all for your kind comments on my first improv quilt. I am now quilting it and have completed the medallion, however I have no clue as how to do the string blocks. Would so appreciate your advice on how to proceed so I can finish it.  Here's the center done:

I've been thinking of maybe Baptist fans or diamonds. ???

Top joined 11/6/21

 Just need to add the circles and the slim outer border.  I'm calling it Christmas Tulips, and since it is going to be a wall hanging, the tulips were raw edge appliqued.

I hope to have it done by the end of the year.

Asymmetry Needed

 Kaja’s {A}symmetry prompt drove home my overwhelming use of symmetry in quilting. Even after posting the prompt, all my quilts have been symmetrical. Butterflies has 90-degree rotational symmetry.

Butterfly baby quilt

And Scrappy Trips has either that or reflective symmetry when looked at block by block.

Scrappy Trip baby quilt

The Baby Word quilts

LOVE baby quilt

and the Baseball quilt demonstrate translational symmetry.

SF Giants baseball quilt

although there’s also reflective symmetry between left- and right-handed players.

Ruth McDowell wrote Symmetry years ago. In the 90s? It’s an excellent explanation of the seventeen tiles in a plane. She uses 🖐 hand prints 🖐 to highlight each. 

In geometry we say there are four types of symmetry: reflection, rotation, translation, and glide reflection. In geology, we identify 32 combination of symmetry operations in crystal morphology {which is just another big word for the natural shape of crystals.} Of course, there are extras because it’s three-dimensional.

I have to look a long way back to find an asymmetrical quilt. All the way back to the first quilt I posted on my blog.

A Daisy a Day

And my favorite quilt - The Live Oak - from sketches of my children in their favorite tree.

The Live Oak

I need to work on asymmetry. Some day soon.

Ann