Dear Liza,
As you can tell, I've become a little obsessed with this French map quilt.
I've never made anything like it, and the examples I've found on the internet aren't anything like I'm trying for, so I am in untested waters.
Quite literally, because it is the shorelines that are giving me the heeby-jeebies. I am trimming, staring, and questioning myself at every step.
After Auntie Bridgett pointed out that for the shoreline to look right it would need water, I headed down to Joann fabric to fetch some blue. And she was right (as she so often is). The shorelines of France curve in, so they fit well inside my hexagonal outline. But what shape should the waves be? Classic pointy? Or smoothly waving?
Since this is an interpretation of a map, we are imagining it from above, and the pointy wave shape is what we see from alongside the waves.
So I am going to go with the smoothly waving style, and will add some embroidered lines of white and blue to show the texture and movement of the waves hitting the shore.
So, after more than a week of "The Artistic Process", I have three of my six edges (those with shorelines) figured out. Next, I'll wrestle with mountains.
Wish me luck!
Love,
Grandma Judy
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