The entire reason I decided to start doing Zentangle drawing is because I was hoping it would help me with my quilting. I wanted to be able to see a space and fill it with designs. Now, I haven’t figured out how to do the shading or filling in, but the line drawings of Zentangle translate quite nicely to quilting.
I’ve been working on my March goal for A Lovely Year of Finishes and have finished all the quilting. All that’s left is binding but before I can do that I need to make my Do Good Stitches blocks. In the mean time here are some pictures of the back of my quilt.
This design was inspired by the Zentangle design called Paradox. I started with a triangle of blue tape on my quilt. I used my walking foot to outline the triangle and then removed the tape. Every subsequent line I eyeballed. I continued adding triangles until the bottom half of the quilt was filled. Here is an in progress shot:
I added some boxy spirals in my background fabrics and some wishbones in my main fabrics to finish the quilt. The wish bones were the only part that I did with my free motion foot, the rest of the quilting was all done with my walking foot.
I have to say that this is the quilt that I am the most proud of the quilting. I worked really hard on it and I love how it turned out. Once I get the binding on maybe then I will be ready to reveal the front…we shall see!
Happy Tuesday!
It’s amazing, Melissa! I would love to sit and watch you quilt this. 🙂
It looks amazing! 🙂
Wow! That is so amazing. I have always felt that I couldn’t do anything too fancy without a fmq foot but I do have a walking foot. Now I have no excuse not to t to try / practice!
Absolutely Fabulous!! Wow!
Inspirational. Total #CreativeGoodness. Definitely makes me want to try this.
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Can’t wait to see the front because I really like the back!
This looks awesome! I can’t wait I see more!
That is wild! Awesome work.
I’m playing catch up tonight. This is fabulous! I love the way it looks. I kept seeing curves, but they aren’t there! Really great job. You *should* be proud of it. Can’t wait to see the front.
Wow! That looks amazing can’t wait to see the other side.
Truly amazing and inspirational!!!!!
Oh wow, that looks fab! Love it! Well done!