Two By Six - #30 October

The Two by Six pattern designed by Natalie Hardin is in the Modern Blocks book compiled by Susanne Woods.  I presented this block for the Modern Block Exchange through Four Winds Quilting in Billings, Montana in 2013.  I have had it quilted for a while even.  I just finally finished the binding and put a hanger on the quilt in time for the Four Winds Quilting Modern Quilt Show on November 1.

The blocks were about 12 1/2 inches unfinished when I received them from the people in the exchange.  But, as with any exchange, the blocks were merely close to 12 1/2 inches unfinished.  I put a teal border around the blocks that I had received to make all of the blocks the same size.  Then I put another orange and yellow border around the blocks.  I cut the blocks wonky so the teal squares would go everywhere.

Then I quilted it A LOT.

Dragonfly:

Jamie Wallen creates dragonflies in his DVD Thread Fusion.

Cattails:

Sun with sunbeams:

I didn't know right away what I was going to do for background fill around the thread painted elements.  I created all of the elements so I would have enough room on the quilt to create elements.  Then, I moved the quilt back and forth on the Gammill quilting machine to do the background fill.  That created some tucks on the back.  Very sad.