Hello!
It’s my day on the Optical Illusions Blog Tour! I’ve never participated in a
blog tour before, so hopefully this goes well:)
It
took a bit of time for me to come up with a design for this book. I happened to
find some good research/inspiration from a project I had done in design school
(I’ve kept almost all of my college work because it was so time consuming I
can’t part with it, and I’m a hoarder). I found lots of patterns and studies on
color and form that provided much needed inspiration (I found good research on Google
too).
A lot of optical illusions work because of high
contrasts in color, but I knew I wanted to include an accent of color as well,
and that helped guide the design a bit. I also like the play with foreground
and background, and how fluctuations in shape can create new forms or
illusions. One of my favorite parts is how the quilt creates curved lines, even
though all the forms are made of angles.
I kept it really simple and only did stitch-in-the-ditch quilting on this. I was totally stumped on what quilting to do, because I didn't want anything that would detract from the overall design and pattern. Luckily, this book also comes with quilting ideas for optical illusions, so I may go back and add more quilting to it later! You can also read my other post about my quilt Curvilinear here.
Congratulations to Lisa E. on winning the Optical Illusions book! Thanks to all those who visited the blog and left a comment. I loved hearing from all of you!
Nov. 3
My Stars –
Kick Off www.mystarsblog.com
(book)
Deb Rowden www.debrowden.blogspot.com
(BB FQ bundle)
Nov. 4
Angela
Walters www.quiltingismytherapy.com
(Athena bundle)
Nov. 5
Penny Layman www.sewtakeahike.typepad.com
(book)
Nov. 6
Melissa Corry
www.happyquiltingmelissa.com
(Oakshott FQ Bundle)
Lily’s Quilts
www.lilysquilts.blogspot.com
(3 - 5" Oakshott charm pack)
Fat Quarter
Shop www.fatquartershop.blogspot.com
(Naptime Bella FQ bundle)
Nov. 7
My Stars on
behalf of Mary Kay Fosnacht/Karen Hansen www.mystarsblog.com (book AND Kona color card)
Nov. 10
My Stars www.mystarsblog.com
(book)
Jamie David www.patchworkarchitect.blogspot.com
(3 packs of charm squares from RK)
Nov. 11
Tia Curtis www.tiacurtisquilts.blogspot.com
(book)
Elizabeth
Timmons www.andpins.wordpress.com
(3 packs of skinny rolls from Robert Kaufman)
Tammie
Schaffer www.craftytammie.com
(book)
Nov. 12
Katie Larson www.thecraftingshell.blogspot.com
(book)
Nov. 13
Jenifer Dick www.42quilts.com
(book)
Trisch Price www.hadleystreetquilts.com
(Kona color card)
Nov. 14
Jessica Toye www.jesstoyequilts.wordpress.com/blog-2/
(book)
Jacquie
Gering www.tallgrassprairiestudio.blogspot.com (Kona color card)
Shea
Henderson www.emptybobbinsewing.com (A large and small Kaleido-Ruler
set by Marti Michell)
Fabulous quilt!!! Thanks for the chance to win a copy of this great book!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is stunning! Elegant design!
ReplyDeleteWow! I really like the design of this quilt.
ReplyDeleteWow. That is an amazing quilt. I'm awestruck.
ReplyDeleteI love the quilt you made, it is awesome! I don't know how you can get all of those points to match up, because I don't think I could! Just your piecing alone is a work of art to me. Thanks so much for the giveaway, I would love to it!
ReplyDeletetdkcarpenoctem@hotmail.com
Totally awesome quilt. I think it is great that you only did stitch in the ditch for quilting because the quilt design is the star of the show, and additional quilting might take away from the awesomeness!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is beautiful. As I scrolled up on my laptop, it made me dizzy! Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteLove the effect optical illusions can have. 24Tangent@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI love illusion you created!
ReplyDeleteWow - that quilt is fantastic! And this book looks aweseom! Thanks!
ReplyDeletePlease click on the delaineelliott above for my email link.
Wow! An amazing design with awesome piecing.
ReplyDeleteWow, I love the movement in that quilt. So striking! Looks like a great book, thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteWOW! I know others have used that word, but the movement of your design is awesome. What a great illusion, and the accent color really accentuates it.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is fabulous!!!!! I agree, simple quilting was the way to go. Nothing should detract from the stunning pattern.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is really stunning! I love the movement in the quilt. Thank you for sharing and for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteAwesome quilt! I love this kind of quilt. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love your quilt! It is amazing!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is my favorite. Thanks for creating it and sharing.
ReplyDeleteI really like how you explained your process and decisions - thanks for that. And I like your quilt too.
ReplyDeleteThis looks a great book - I love the cover quilt!
ReplyDeleteHI, Book looks really neat!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
msstitcher1214@gmail.com
Amazing optical illusions in Curvilinear. Congratulations on having your quilt chosen to be in the book!
ReplyDeleteThe book looks amazing. Thanks for the chance.
ReplyDeletejanie.mccombs(at)yahoo.com
Love Curvilinear!!! The colors are awesome and really highlight the design. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteFABULOUS My engineer husband has fallen in love with this. I must win lol
ReplyDeleteWhat a fabulous quilt. It needs to be displayed on a wall to show off its full glory.
ReplyDeleteI really like Curvilinear and I think I will attempt it in the future. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHello Katie, I love the Curvilinear quilt . Steel , Valentine and Sky are luscious colors. I just wanted to tell you that.
ReplyDeleteExclude me from this draw as I've already won the Optical Illusions book on the first day of this Blog hop. Thank you though! BTW I like shoe fly pie:)
Beautiful design, beautiful colours. A very dynamic quilt. Thank you for sharing and for offering a giveaway.
ReplyDeleteYour design is great and the illusion of curves is wonderful.Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is amazing. This is a great book.
ReplyDeleteSwoon! I love all your quilts!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about simple but that is dramatic in the illusion. Love it!
ReplyDeleteIllusions are so cool. The quilting is amazing. It will be hard to choose colors to get the right illusion.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt turned out wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI really like this quilt. Of course, I like optical illusions and brain teasers so I would love to get a copy of this book or win one to add to my quilting library so I can make several of these quilts. Well, I'd probably make them all and then give them away because that's just what I do. I have yet to keep a quilt I've made. kthurn@bektel.com
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is amazing! I love this blog tour!
ReplyDeletenice pattern. this book looks like one I'd love to win thanks
ReplyDeleteABreading4fun [at] gmail [dot] com
So much movement created in this quilt. I love it.
ReplyDeletetushay3(at)yahoo(dot)com
What a stunning pattern! Your quilt is stop-you-in-your-tracks beautiful!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win a copy of the Optical Illusions book! Thanks for this opportunity.
I am so enjoying this blog tour and seeing the quilts - would love to have this book!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Liz
boltonia55@yahoo.com
I so want to make a Curvilinear quilt! Thanks for a chance to win...
ReplyDeleteLOVE your quilt! That looks so cool!
ReplyDeleteI am so glad I follow Melissa Corry and caught on to this give away!
ReplyDeleteI love your quilt, but totally looked away for the "curves" in the smaller pictures. So happy to find it is just straight line. Please pick me Would love to make this.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the opportunity to win a copy of this book. I think your curvilinear quilt is awesome!
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