This quilt was one of the many crowd stoppers. There seems to be two different types of modern quilting: the 3D geometric shapes and the no pattern anything goes style (which really isn't modern, as groups were doing that during the Civil War). I don't know how many quilters went up to the tag to read the name, artist, and pattern while I was waiting to take the picture, only to step back with a baffled look, shake their head, then walk on by. The reason? It's an original pattern that a scientist/quilter created. Normally (but not always) you see patterns like these created by males, often former engineers, who either retired or lost their job due to downsizing, and took up quilting after pestering their wife or Mom who was a quilter. After all, quilting does involve shapes and math. But this lady wrote up her description full of large words that no simple person uses, but basically saying she had to figure out a way to curve the pieces at different degrees to make the sphere.
I love her color choices, especially how the purple and black toward the bottom blend into the background without disappearing (and if that's not purple, don't tell me!)
A close up of the curved piecing. It appears that she cut small pieces at the same angles and then sewed them into strips like a fan pattern. But this is one of those things I probably wouldn't get up the nerve to try without a pattern.
And tomorrow will wrap up the quilt show!
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