SLEEPING DOG QUILTS
Thousand Pyramids "Shades of Spring" 35 x 40 inches
Thousand Pyramids "Shades of Spring" 35 x 40 inches
Here's my completed Thousand Pyramids "Shades of Spring" quilt. There is a row of Big Stitch Quilting along the diagonal of each row of block in a variety of matching colored cotton threads. Then there are two to four rows of white machine stitches, ranging from 1/2 to 1/4 inch apart.
The back is pieced. I like it as much as the front!
Back of "Shades of Spring"
A Thousand Pyramids in progress
A Thousand Pyramids in progress
Like Spring, my Thousand Pyramids Quilt is coming along. This quilt has turned out to be more challenging than I had expected.
The solid color triangles don't have a defined up or down. I had put the quilt blocks up on my design wall and evenly distributed the colors and the one patterned fabric. But I found I kept inadvertently flipping both the 2 and 4 block units when I took snipped them off the chain piecing strings.
Back to the design wall. I resorted the blocks for the quilt and carefully stacked them up in order to make sure I'd sew them together as planned. Sewing the strips together I'm finding the blocks have shifted again! (Maybe there is a Night Block Fairy who comes and reshuffles my quilt blocks)!
The color distribution in the finished quilt will be far more random than I'd planned. But I think that is very much in the character of this pattern so I'm happy with the way it's coming together.
Wait! What's this? Could it be the Night Block Fairy??
After seeing the Thousand Pyramids in the quilt show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a year ago, making a Thousand Pyramids quilt has been on my "to-do" list. In fact, the triangles for my quilt have been cut out and ready to use since last fall. Now is the time!
My color scheme is Spring itself---chartreuse and other yellow greens, turquoises, yellows and grays. I recently picked up a new Art Gallery fabric with a rolling hill design which I thought might be a great addition and I was just about to cut some more triangles. But when I took out my bag with the already cut pieces, I realized I shouldn't add anything more. The new fabric might go on the back of the quilt. Time will tell!
There's the Thousand Pyramids Quilt from the Pilgrim/Roy Collection "Quilts and Color" MFA exhibit last year. It was made in Ohio in the 1930's. All those jewel tone colors! It's a beauty!
