Pieced June 2002 |
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While I was in college I had the privilege of attending the annual conference of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. While there, I caught a glimpse of a quilt that a teacher had made. It looked like a tree and was made of triangles and squares. It's name had something to do with Pythagoras or the Pythagorean Theorem.
I thought it was facinating so I sketched it out and tried to burn it into my memory. Five years later, I designed this quilt with the help of a program called Geometer's Sketchpad. Then I redrew it in EQ5. |
This was my design in EQ5:
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| I chose fabrics that blended from brown to green, going from trunk to leaves. I chose a soft blue to represent the sky in the background. I also found a fabric that looks like grass and has all three colors of green I had already used in the quilt. I put a row of that at the bottom, and when I finish the quilt I will use that fabric as the binding.
I was thrilled how it came out. This was the third quilt I pieced (after the two Fibonacci quilts). I designed it, purchased fabric and constructed it all while my Mom was out of town. It was so exciting to show it to her when she got home! However, I had very little machine quilting experience at that point. I can't achieve free-motion very well on my machine, and I would like to do something other than straight lines on this one. So it has been left unquilted since June 2002! Maybe someday I'll finish it... |
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