Tuatara Tropicana

The Hoffman 2019 fabric was multicoloured oranges and lemons on a white background. This was my submission for that year.

Turning some of those edges was not easy but it was awarded best modern quilt at the Quilt Symposium in Auckland. I don’t do these challenges for the awards but for the stimulus of the challenge and working within the parameters of the competition. I do have to say that this quilt came together very easily and I was very pleased with the result. I start with the outline drawn onto a cotton substrate and then begin the collage process. Once all the fabric is in place, I free machine the edges and then go over the whole with free machine quilting. In this case I have used a small figure of eight pattern to replicate the scales on the tuatara - a survivor from an earlier age.