#kindakantha

[heatherkisaquilter]

Geese Study #1 is the second of my almost whole cloth series, the first where I toyed with the idea of modernizing red work embroidery as dense quilting. I used three off white solids and three off white threads and nearly an entire big spool of aurifil 12 wt red thread. This quilt was accepted to hang at QuiltCon in Pasadena in February 2018 for exhibit only as I am on the Board of Directors of the Modern Quilt Guild

[heatherkisaquilter]

Last winter I took this nearly whole cloth quilt on our visit home at Christmas. It is about 52″ square, and I hand quilted it all in about 6 weeks. It has been very difficult to capture the warmth and texture of it in photos. 

It was my take on a drunkard’s path block, using very dense hand quilting with Auriful embroidery floss (and 50wt for the less dense hand quilting). The Aurifil floss has a lovely metallic sheen to it when used this densely (in a double strand). 

My goal with the hand quilting was inspired by kantha stitches and folk art where the lack of perfection shows the hand of the maker--although I was new to hand quilting, and I now kind of cringe at some of the mistakes I made in tying off threads and quilting that close together. I learned so much from this quilt, and it has since become the first in a series as I push this idea farther.