This was my second original quilt. The fish are raw edge appliquéd, and I was able to cut four out of a quarter yard. Each fish has a block, four blocks are a section, and here we are at a king sized quilt. (Click on the picture for bigger.)I think that this was the beginning of preferring scrap quilts. Of course, I had no scraps, so I had to go buy them, but one does what one can. I'd like to make another fish quilt, maybe playing with the arrangement so that the fish are swimming in streams of different colors. I think I'd ditch the border, too. This is my first, and last, mitered border. I'm more of a butt joiner. (snicker)
I can see that I was not afraid of color, even in the beginning, but I did stick with plausible colors- blue water, orange fish. I think it would be a much more interesting quilt with, oh, say, forty five more colors. What was your early original quilting like?
