Asymmetry

I like asymmetrical designs. I am very much attracted to designs that are not equal on both sides. But at the same time I am striving to create harmony within the design. Making anything be it a quilt, bag or table runner in this manner poses a challenge for me.

Reading Gwen Marston's book Liberated Quiltmaking has really been inspirational when it comes to creating my own designs.  If you can get your hands on a copy I highly recommend it.  I borrowed a copy from my library. 

Making this table runner is a good example of how I have been inspired by Gwen.  First I layed out a piece of linen 45 inches long.  Then I took the fabric with the white background and folded it into different sizes moving it around to different places until I settled on the place that was pleasing to me.  I did the same with the blue and red accent fabrics.  I then cut out the amount of linen from the main piece, adding seam allowances, and added in the fabrics.  I did the same with the smaller pieces. Moving things around until I felt it was just right.   I really love creating this way! "Creating as you sew"  try it out, see for yourself, it's quite enjoyable.

The fabric, by the way, is Anna Griffin, The Flora Collection.  I just love that red floral print,  it has such a peaceful quality to it.  I was very pleased with the balance of print fabric to the plain linen in this design.  This is not always the case with some of my projects.  But this is a journey and I am enjoying the process of coming up with my own style. 

For the quilting I knew I wanted to do something with a heavy quilted look.  I have been following Lauren's blog  My Aunt June for a while now and I love the way she quilts her quilts.  Check out this  beauty.  So, I had to give it a try and I came up with this wavy quilting.  I used a whole spool of brown thread quilting this.