brantinglm@me.com Carmel, California, United States
For my granddaughter’s eighth birthday, I made a rainbow quilt—her favorite motif at that moment—and came away with the idea of a spectrum quilt as the next evolution of my to-that-point monochromatic appliqué ring series. A surprise gift of a fabulous range of Oakshott 6-inch squares gave me a push. I made them into rings, adding larger sizes from stash, and after a careful edit, 80 of the original 150 created, drift in this floating wreath. A twenty-color spectrum of narrow vertical quilting also appears to drift as the viewer and ambient light move so that no two people see it the same way. Original design, hand appliquéd, machine quilted on domestic Bernina 770QE, faced
