Swap quilt arrived and sent

I've been a bit tardy in sending off my solids swap off to England for Kathleen, but that delay meant I could take a photo of hers (left) and mine together here in Canada. aren't they lovely together?

Watch your mail, Kathleen, it's coming soon.  Not by Royal Mail, like yours, but via Canada Post.

My Quilt Top for the Solids Segment Swap Challenge

After too many weeks of sewing machine woes, I was finally able to pull a pile of solid scraps from my solids bin, and I got busy making the mini quilt for this swap.  My inspiration painting is in the picture below.

A day later and I have this. 

Hopefully it will be quilted right away and sent off to my swap partner just in the nick of time!  I'll post a picture of the completed mini quilt when it is done.

Deb

ready to swap

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I'm ready to swap one of two 15 inch quilts from the Segmented Solids Challenge.

inspired by Paul Klee's Heroic Roses

I quilted it using straight lines in angles -- I tried twice to free motion it, but the quilt kept saying no, so I tore out the stitches and did this instead. I think it suits the mood of the original.

inspired by Henri Matisse's Creole Dancer and and his cutout artwork

This one has lots of heavy stitching, attempting to mimic the cutouts of Matisse, with meander quilting in the background. I like them both, but for different reasons. I'm happy to hear from my swap partner Kathleen which one she prefers and I'll get it off in the mail.

Kandinsky's Circles in Fiber

Here is my first attempt at Kandinsky's Circles with the Solid Segments Challenge. 

I decided not to copy the painting exactly because I got bored with that.  So I began switching up the colors, and referring to the original painting just for inspiration. 

I may do another attempt and try to add another circle inside each 4 square.  We'll see what happens today!