#dadoquilt

[kannabelestranged]

Committing (for the minute at least) to the idea of quilting a 15th century dado panel I came across on @nobrashfestivity 's blog.

So far I have begun drafting the pattern on Rhino and so far I have learnt to park my hubris at the door and that no, I do not know better than an artisan from the 15th century. When I gleefully called out to @nightsand142 that I thought I could fix what I saw as an awkward repeat in the pattern what I didn't know was that to get to that point I had completely broken the overarching rhythm of the repetition. Something that I only realised after many more hours fiddling and dissatisfaction.

The pattern when I thought I was fixing it . . .

A main issue being that I couldn't find a way to make a section of the pattern sit nicely on a rectangle.

And then, if I follow the reference properly . . . . .

It is BEAUTIFUL. The way that the repeats come together and create rhythms and shapes and lines of interest that I couldn't see even in the source image . . . GORGEOUS. Truly the greatest path to understanding and respecting a piece of art is imitation. There is so much movement to it.

I am in love. Which is good, because the next job is to figure out how small I think I can make the pieces without driving myself completely insane.

[kannabelestranged]

Weekend #2 of the mosaic quilt and much progress has been made.

Firstly decided after drafting everything up for cutting that I actually did not like the scale and made everything smaller. The panel on left below is the draft, the right is what I am working towards now.

I'm estimating that this change will mean it takes at least 3x as long but I think I will be much happier with the result since it was the intricacy of the pattern that drew me to this idea originally.

The most exciting part of the weekend though . . . . . FABRIC SHOPPING!!!

Managed to find the whole set of fabrics in one shop and we also see here my very first every attempt at English Paper Piecing.

Woohoo