Crystallography.

Crystallography is the scientific study of crystals, crystal formation and light refraction.

This quilt was made for my customers Son who is studying crystal formation. Rather than quilt motifs in the negative space I was asked if I could quilt a design radiating out from the centre, I was emailed one or two crystal formation drawings to help a little.
Sometimes it's still difficult to know if I've understood the vision that my customers can see and other times the slight diversion of my thinking can add a little more to the finished design.

Some of the colours are off in a few of the photos as the quilt was picked up early one morning along with the green and blue applique quilt in the previous post and was given as a Christmas gift.

All stitched in the ditch with Superior Monopoly, all other quilting was Glide thread and 100% Simply Cotton wadding.

On a Lone star quilt there is a lot of negative space....depending on budget this can be a wonderful opportunity to really go wild and enjoy the quilting....this design needed a fair amount of marking, I only use a purple air erasable marker or white chalk on customer quilts....

All freemotion, hand guided, with a fair amount of ruler work, except for the stars in the border, where I used a template.
I think the look has an Art Deco feel about it, the photos speak for themselves....