Solomon’s Stripes
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WonderFil Specialty Threads: Interview with Ethylene Ziegler about her quilt "Solomon's Stripes"
From WonderFil: "We got to interview Ethylene Ziegler about her quilt Solomon's Stripes at Quilt Con! This quilt won best hand quilting and was quilted with Spaghetti. Our 12wt, Egyptian cotton thread. Ethylene is a part of the LA Modern Quilt Guild and has been quilting for about 10 years now. This quilt was her first entry into QuiltCon, and was made using her two favorite improv techniques. Strip piecing, and an improved quarter-circle curves. And was based off of the drunkard's path!"
Quilt Summary:
"Solomon’s Stripes" By Ethylene Ziegler won Best Hand Quilting at QuiltCon 2024.
- - Improvisational Piecing
- - Piecing
- - Hand Quilting
Description:
Artist Statement 1: "Inspired by an Anni Albers color study, I originally set out to design a quilt using only three colors, with the Kona Color of the Year, Crush, appearing in all of the blocks. The block design I came up with is a combination of two of my improv favorites - strip piecing and quarter-square curves. The fourth color was added by chance when I ran out of Crush and found a color in my stash with the same value. Hard to believe, but if you take a photo of the quilt in black and white, it will look like the 3-color quilt I originally had in mind."
Artist Statement 2: "Regardless of the outcome, I am so incredibly proud of this piece and of each of the over 20,500 stitches I hand-quilted into it."
Techniques Used: Machine Pieced, Improvisational Piecing, Hand Quilted
(Main Quilt Photo from quiltcon.com; Sign Photo from quiltingjetgirl.com)