I am part of Facebook group called Quilt Design a Day. The goal is to design one quilt each day based on the prompt for that day. I haven’t yet found the time to participate on a daily basis, but I do participate here and there. One of the prompts last year was the following picture. We were to design a quilt and then make the quilt for possible acceptance into a special exhibit at QuiltCon in Savannah next month

Photo credit: Michelle Wilke @ Factotum of Arts
I started playing around with the different lines. I design in EQ7 and love how flexible the program is. I can design multiple variations of the same quilt and save the block and the quilt to go back and look at later. Originally I decided to play with the black and white angles, and maybe a little bit of the windows. Here are 3 quilt possibilities that I started with.
Then I decided that I wanted to play with the windows a bit more and came up with this.
But that felt too heavy to me. The windows were just too block-y. What if I turned them on-point? I turned them, played around with them a bit, and came up with this.
I like it, but it’s still not quite right. What if I elongate it?
YES!!! I LOVE IT!
Then I had to make it… Of course, it took longer than I thought it would. Of course, it was a headache in many ways. The angles were quilt difficult to line up. I made a smaller version than I really wanted because I started it just 2 weeks before it was due and I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to make a large quilt in that time period given that I also work full-time.
And… I didn’t finish it! If I had had one more day, I could have finished. But I didn’t. Oh well. At least I finished and it didn’t join the long-term UFO pile. And any finish is reason to celebrate.
I wanted to do some special quilting on it. Sometimes I like a bit of design in the quilting rather than just a straight line or an all-over meander. This is probably the reason I didn’t finish the quilt by the deadline, but I love the way it looks.
Here is the back.
Measures: 34″ x 47″
Fabrics: Kona Cotton Mediterranean, Kona Cotton Prussian, Kona Cotton Carrot, Kona Cotton Snow, and Kona Cotton Shale.
Linking up with Can I Get a Whoop Whoop at Confessions of a Fabric Addict and Finish it Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts
It looks wonderful! What an awesome design!!
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing your process and the many transitions. Love the quilting too. It really enhances the design.
It’s magnificent!
So, could you maybe do a program on advanced EQ7 use? Shall we ask if anyone would like that? This came out great!
That’s a possibility. I find it hard to design modern quilts in it. I’m taking a EQ7 class at QuiltCon. I can’t wait to see what I learn there. Hopefully they’ll give us tips and tricks to make it easier for modern quilt design
This is a beautiful quilt!
this is so beautiful and inspiring as i just went to a group of eq7 users and one of the gals that went to training for it taught us some things.I look forward to trying out a few ideas of my own and then making them. This is so so wonderful! love your colors, blocks on point and stretched out. Super
Fantastic quilt! Thanks for sharing your design process.
This is the best quilt I saw so far in 2017. I am stunned, impressed, and amazed! Thank you for sharing!