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43 inches x 54 inches
100% cotton: marbled and dyed fabric, batting and back
Machine pieced, appliquéd and quilted, metallic thread.
This sailing compass controls the fabric collage of marble fabrics conveying a sense of the high seas with land in the distance. Not wanting to define much imagery in this piece, the small sailboat is the exception. Even the compass is only three quarters finished. The apparent random piecing of the fabric collage was well planned out on my work wall. It takes a long time to piece this style quilt because much of it involves simply studying the pinned up pieces and moving them around and around and around...
The light fabric around the compass was specifically marbled for this quilt and I had enough to use in several other compass quilts. The colors are reminiscent of a summer day on the water watching the land as you sail by.
The inner border helps contain the energy of the abstract collage and connects it to the outside border. Reversing the color of the inner border balanced the lights so the compass didn't float away. Metallic thread was used for the quilting to add a sparkle.
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