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This is the 54-40 or Fight block. It's kind of cool for a traditional block and depending on where you put your darks and lights it can look quite different.
I played around with some ideas using the whole block but I was mostly inspired by just a small part of it.
If you imagine the block as a tic-tac-toe board, then I chose just the middle part in the bottom row, which made me think of a prism, even though most prisms are triangles whose sides are all the same length and this triangle is taller than it is wide.
My angles of refraction might also be off, but this isn't science, it's art inspired by science. The physics behind light is cool!
The rainbow is pieced and then appliqued to the black background. The prism is made with two pieces of sheer fabric, one that has sparkles on it and the top one is a thicker gray sheer.
The white line is a white yarn and around the prism are two black yarns, one of which has some green sparkles in it.
It's wrapped around a canvas frame.
There are so many layers in this quilt:
- The bottom layer is the deep purple batik, most of which is visible under the umbrella
- Next are deep teal strips of fabric sewn as raw edge machine applique with rainbow colored yarn couched on top
- There are thick rainbow colored ribbon couched to the purple batik between the teal strips
The letter blocks have another four layers: a square, a diamond, the letter, then a square sheer are all quilted down with a rainbow variegated thread.
The letters are arranged in a staggered layout so the top of the diamond point is between the letters in the rows above and below it.
