Sulfur Spring quilt

My inspiration usually comes from the photo. For most of the water quilts I used my friend Rita’s photos as an inspiration  source. As I traveled a lot myself, this time I scrolled through my own photos and stopped at one taken few years ago in Yellowstone. I don’t remember the name of that site but I call it Sulfur Spring because I remember the smell of sulfur around it.

Water in its liquid form  has no color or shape. It only gets a shape or color when it reflects things around it. Or as a lot of minerals dissolved in it. I guess water in this pool was rich with minerals:

To start my quilt I chose all values of blue, aqua, green and some yellow:

I started making improvised log cabin blocks:

Than I added some green blocks and blue blocks on both sides:

I felt it needed something else! It looked very plain, there was no excitement at all.

Then I pulled the ugliest fabric I had in my stash and started making blocks adding some orange at the same time:

Now it looked so much better than I decided that’s what enough and  I could move on to quilting.

As this quilt is made entirely from the same kind of blocks and has the same texture I used a very simple but dense quilting design all over the quilt:

 

 

 

Here is my quilting thread choice:

Finally I had to square the quilt up:

I decided that binding would not show up in front of the quilt. So I sewed it on the front and turned all over to the back later:

I really liked how the quilt looked like now but just to give it a try I flipped the quilt over:

Voilà– that’s what this quilt needed! Now everything falls  into right places- don’t you think so?