Friday 22 May 2015

Amy's Bloggers' Quilt Festival 2015 (part 2)

I think I've just got time to submit a second entry to the 2015 Spring Bloggers' Quilt Festival.  If you seriously don't know anything about it, just click here

My Second entry is this bright and fun Rainbow Quilt. 
 

I was involved in a rainbow charm swap a few years ago and waited until I knew the right project for them!

Amy has called this category ROYGBIV for the seven classic colours of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), but as quilters we know that a colour wheel has SIX colours and its only a short leap to understand that a rainbow has the same.  I was told that in the 15th century (or so) the church felt that as 6 was associated with the devil (the number of the anti-Christ being 666) it was a bit dodgy having six colours in the rainbow so they kind of added indigo!

Anyhow, I blogged about making it here, and my "rainbow" quit goes under the far less romantic name of "LJ 7R"  This is due to the conversation I have with myself as I'm joining the blocks together: "L, J, L, J, L, J" followed by "7, R, 7, R, 7, R". 

Look at this photo and you'll maybe see why:

Some people call it floating squares, I call it LJ 7R, but I hope you'll all call it bright and beautiful!!!

9 comments:

  1. Hi Benta! Absolutely bright and beautiful! I love this quilt and your RAINBOW colour Info is interesting! I never thought how many colours there really is. As you know, I connect this quuilt festival always with you. Have a great weekend! x Teje

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  2. It`s just stunning and hope you get many votes.Good luck!

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  3. I love the rainbow colours, another happy quilt!

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  4. I remember you posted the beginning of this quilt last year, and I wanted to try it myself. I still do :-)

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  5. Beautiful Quilt! I love it!

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