ColorForm 7 & 8

The top quilt is ColorForm 8, which is 21" x 24" W. I finished the next quilt last week; it is 16"H x 20"W. I am enjoying these small quilts, working to make something simple that makes a statement using few colors and shapes. It has been a process that is helping me heal, after the loss of my mother in April.

ColorForm 6

My goal with this quilt was to use yellow-as you can see, I didn't! Well, the next one I had better success with yellow. Obviously it is not one of my favorite colors. This is a smaller quilt - 17" H x 21" W.

ColorForm 4 & 5

I like being able to use more of my small fabric pieces, but have not really noticed a dent in my piles! But making smaller quilts has helped me figure out color combinations better. I have added some stripes, and who knows what will come next?

ColorForm 3

I finished up 3 more of these smaller quilts; this one is 15"H x 22-3/4"W.

Small Quilts

I have started working on a group of small quilts. I have tried smaller quilts off and on, but never felt I had translated what I do into a small work. But with these, I am finding it a good way to work with color combinations, and I can quickly move on to a new idea. At the same time, I have a larger quilt on my design wall that has been more difficult, and I can keep an eye on that and move shapes around, and think about it. At the same time I take pictures, and I have been trying to keep up with putting photos each day of what I am doing in my sketchbook, so I can see the progression of my work.

Structure 11

25" H x 41" W

I finished this top a couple of weeks ago, but finally had time to machine quilt it over the weekend. One of my sons took 3 of my smaller quilts to hang in his apartment, including Structure 10. I was thrilled he liked them; it is nice to have them hanging up and having others enjoy them.

Structure 10

This is a smaller quilt: 20" x 36". Sometimes when I am working on a quilt, trying to make it all work,I have a moment when I try something in a moment of desperation. And it works! That is what happened here, with the striped fabric. That is what I find difficult when working in a series: I might only have that ah-ha! moment with the first quilt, then it becomes harder to find that feeling of discovery.

I have one more quilt to do the machine quilting on, but now I am going to start the quilting on a bed quilt I am making as a gift. It is hard working on something so big!