Coal Seam

Coal SeamCoal Seam is a result of experimenting with inserting slivers of orange fabric into triangles of black fabric. When deciding on the layout, I tried lining up the orange strips from one triangle to another and was amused to see that I could have cut the triangles from a long strip of black with a skinny strip of orange through the center. That would likely have resulted in a less whimsical collection of triangles and it's not the way my brain works when I am sewing.I like to cut and sew parts and see where that journey takes me. I pieced them together with the Orange lined up partly because that was NOT the way they were originally constructed.The quilt is hand quilted with black thread. I extended the lines of the triangles to the edge of the quilt.There is also a small piece of the orange in the binding.This quilt was started in a workshop with Luke Haynes this winter at QuiltCon.I had to quilt it quickly because Gwen Marston asked me if she could include it in her latest book, Free Range Triangles. She was already at her deadline so I stitched with a 'flaming needle and burning thread' as my mother would say.I shipped it out to the publisher before I even took a photo of it. I have it back now and can share it with you. The quilting is still a bit sparse near the edges of the quilt. I plan to add some more quilting in white thread.I am eagerly awaiting my copy of Gwen's new book.