Red Rubber Ball - Quilt of the Week

 

Red Rubber Ball, 20" x 20", handmade by Pam Geisel

The traditional block for the final Focus Through the Prism quilt was the Snowball block. Again I went with the nine patch arrangement and since red was the only color that was left, it made sense to me to make the snowballs into red rubber balls. 

If you've been reading all of these Quilt of the Week's for the Focus Through the Prism series, one of the reasons that I had red left was because it was actually the color I used for the very first challenge quilt but it ended up not working and I had to start over, only I used most all of the red and I had to reorder another piece, so it ended up getting used last.

All of the seven quilts in the Focus Through the Prism series:

- Use all of the seven colors but have one main color (with smaller pieces of fabric almost the same color to give it some visual texture)

- Have a black border with brown stars

- Have bits of the focus color on the black square in the middle, on the border, and on top of the other colors

- Have a piece of black yarn couched on top

- Have curved quilting lines 1/4" apart that echo the shape of the yarn

In this piece the focus color is RED and the yarn represents A BOUNCING BALL.

My series was featured in Art Quilting Studio Magazine's Autumn 2018 issue on working in a series and they were also included with several quilts that other people made for the Focus Through the Prism challenge including the Wisconsin Quilt Expo in 2016. Above is Red Rubber Ball with some of the other red quilts.

Because this is the Quilt of the Week, it is 10% off the original price of $300 and as a special deal, all of the Focus Through the Prism quilts are 10% off through 5/16/21 if you purchase directly from me. Details can be found here.