First Gift/second in a series
After piecing together the 4 Classic Shapes quilt, I had two large scraps cut from the background–the flowery shapes on the right and the left, as well as some left-over handpainted pink/purple fabric.
The scraps were long, but thinner than the original quilt, so this design is taller and skinnier, almost like minarets on the horizon. The hand-painted fabric is in the foreground, with no quilting. It is quite a bit stiffer than the other fabrics, and the patterns are very subtle, so quilting would obscure the complexity of the fabric. The brighter fabric is a new addition, which follows on to the next quilt as a kind of gift of its own.
Another quilter at the Alegre Retreat (’04 or ’05) told me about the way that scraps could be used as Gifts to built a series of quilts. I believe that she was in a class with Michael James.