Structure - Laurie Ceesay - "Chevrons"

 This is my entry in the Structure Challenge. It was a huge challenge to me because I view art quilts as not being structured and that is why I moved into this style of quilting in the first place. I do like making half square triangles which I consider structured so I used them with a vertical chevron color placement as the background of a contemporary portrait quilt. The color scheme began with the large polka dot which I used as the binding. I chose all the colors but gray and white was used for the portrait applique-gray seemed as if there was too low of a contrast for the white. I put the navy on the outsides to create a nice border and cool colors on one side and warm colors on the other. This quilt felt very "modern" to me and I echo quilted the chevrons similar to modern quilts I have seen.

The embellishments used were nail polish on the eyelids and the mouth, a rhinestone "nose piercing," a dot of navy matte fabric paint for the eye reflection and with the "theme" fabric I made a fabric yo-yo flower with large button center.

I needed to deviate from the group's size of 11.5" x16.5" to do the HST at 3" finished. My quilt will probably never be seen by any of the women in the group and I need to love the project to begin it so the finished size is 12" x 18."

I had so much fun I made a second one adding a small border for my local quilt guild's biennial quilt show April 25-26, 2015 using left over pastel batiks from the raffle quilt fabric scraps.

The same pattern and chevron placement but different colors. I do not work in pastels much so it was a fun change. This one is cute too!