SIZE MATTERS: Moda Blog Hop

Large Rock with humans for scale

Michael Heiser's Levitated Mass

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

It's my day to blog about SIZE.

The give-away is over. Jan B won.

Not two... but three precut packages of my latest Moda line

Morris Modernized  

The Swag, arranged in relative size:

1 Candy-2-1/2" Squares

1 Charm Pack - 5" Squares

 1 Layer Cake - 10" Squares

The challenge from Moda was to take the block assigned to me and consider size and scale.

Here's my challenge block.

It's an odd pattern---looks modern rather than traditional,

mainly because it has 2-way symmetry rather than patchwork's

common 4-way symmetry.

UPDATE:

Here's the link to the pattern instructions:

http://www.unitednotions.com/MSM-Barbara-Brackman.pdf

This link doesn't work. Sorry!!!

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I made up a couple of 3" versions

I resisted my traditional inclination to make it a four-patch

or a flying goose.

Although this switcheroo is interesting.

I wanted to abandon traditional design and four-way symmetry.

I'd go with two colors.

Quilt from the mid-20th century.

On my separate Historical Modernism blog I've been discussing

scale and relative size in modern and antique quilts.

So I had some ideas.

http://historicallymodernquilts.blogspot.com/

A design I found on the web

How about this---a sketch from EQ7---

3" blocks inside a 24" block?

Or this?

I decided I was thinking too hard.

Make some 3" blocks and one 6" block.

Humph. That's why I stick with

reproduction quilts.

It will be fun to see what you do with it.

Here's a link to the complete schedule:

http://modafabrics.blogspot.com/p/moda-size-matters-blog-hop.html