From Darwin with Love - A Colour Palette Challenge

This quilt also owes its inception to Kim’s years in Darwin - “The Top End”. One Christmas a package of fabrics arrived in the colours of the Top End: Ochre, bright yellow and intense blue. I will always associated these colours with the Northern Territory. These were colours I didn’t usually work with and the palette was a challenging one - Kim was probably aware of that. I used lots of cream to tone down the complimentaries and this is the result. I was quite pleased with the result and the fact that I had lots of space to practise using machine quilting. A good example of how pushing past our comfort zone can push us into new creative practice.

The quilting patterns were traced onto the quilt and then off I went. There are back to back hearts in the squares between the large pieced blocks. This was the first time I had used a mixture of curved quilting patterns and straight echo stitching