My quilt top is finally done!
There are 224 blocks total, set in a 14 x 16 rectangle. Each block is 6 inches square, making the whole thing about 84 x 96 inches.
There is this amazing pattern of light and dark that leads to the kaleidescope-like rings. It looks even more beautiful than I ever thought it would. It is much more than the sum of its parts--and, since there are 2,688 pieces of fabric here, there are a lot of parts.
I started working on this in earnest a little more than a year ago. Now I need to figure out how I'm going to quilt it. Likely I will do this by hand, because machine quilting is both capital- and knowledge-intensive. I already have a quilting hoop. But if I do it by hand, it will likely take me another year to get it done. However, quilting seems to me to be much simpler than piecing and, who knows, it might even take less time than I anticipate. We'll see.
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