Thin Blue Line

The Contemporary Quilt section of QGBI currently has a challenge to make a piece 120cm x 30 cm and other than the size the only stipulation is that it should have a thin blue line running horizontally across the quilt. 

I made my piece very simply – it is white on white and the thin blue line is more text (I can’t get enough of it at the moment). The only trouble is I’ve made my piece landscape and whilst I’m quite happy to FME from any angle I can’t do handwriting sideways!!! I hadn’t thought this physical problem through when planning the quilt so the start of the text was done very slowly with 115 cm of quilt rolled very tightly! 

I’m really enjoying (even though it has been done many times before and carried out far more effectively) using the soft warm domestic ‘feel’ of quilting and contrasting it with messages that are quite the opposite!