Yesterday was a BAMQG Improv class at Always Quilting with Tina Michalik. I really liked it and it wasn’t long enough, mostly because I was on a roll sewing and wanted to keep it up. Mostly I took it as a reward for smiling and being the perfect soon-to-be First Lady.
I wouldn’t really start an Improv quilt on my own in my workroom. It isn’t that I don’t like the technique, the issue is that I have other things to work on and the technique never comes to mind.
The last Improv quilt I made was the Women’s Work quilt I started in the Gwen Marston workshop. I like that quilt and remember the freedom I felt making the blocks. There was a similar feeling in the class yesterday. I think because of the constraints on my time lately I really liked that feeling of freedom.
I switched around the background and foreground so the red is actually the foreground according to Tina’s pattern. I wanted the interplay of the prints as the background. I may have been wrong in that choice as I am not liking what I have made so far. I like the interplay of fabric motifs and the black, white, greys with the red, but the center is too cross like. The center is sewn together, but I am considering unsewing and resewing in the way that Tina suggested. I am a little angry at myself because I did not even turn the blocks in Tina’s direction to consider laying them out with the red as the negative space.
Kelly used some Alison Glass and Anna Maria Horner prints and I love the way hers looks.
Regardless, I want the prints area to be fatter, so I think taking the four blocks apart is in my future.
I’ll have to think about it.
