TGIFF! - Mod 1600

Welcome to TGIFF! Mod 1600 is done and I LOVES it! Yes, that grammar error was intentional.

This quilt started with a Kona dark solid jelly roll. I did a jelly roll race with it for the top. That was quite the exercise is letting the colours fall where they may. In the end, I'm very glad I did because now I'm having fun looking at different sections of the quilt and discovering some great colour combinations.

Front of Mod 1600 -
Jelly roll race side

Back of Mod 1600 -
Fibonacci side

For the back, I used the Fibonacci ratio (1:2:3:5:8) for the colours. I'm really loving this analogous colour group lately, especially with black. 

Detail of quilting on the
jelly roll race side

Detail of quilting on
Fibonacci side

For the quilting, I did straight lines my walking foot width apart using the jelly roll race side as my guide. I thought about quilting in the ditch of the quilt seams but I thought that it would be too hard to keep it straight. In the end I'm so glad I didn't. For the Jelly roll race side, the seams continue the straight line look, but on the back the skipped lines give a different effect. I love the texture that the straight line quilting gives it!

Once I finished the straight line quilting, I added a few straight lines along a 45 degree angle, mimicking some of the seams between the strips.

For the binding, I used black with a little patch of red in the lower right hand corner. Just because.

Quiltography: "Mod 1600," by Michèle-Renée Charbonneau, Ottawa, 54" by 62.5", 2012.

This is also one of my projects for Sew Into Solids, a fun Flickr group I recently joined.

So happy with this one!

Happy Friday!