The COOLEST Storm at Sea I've ever seen was about four years ago in the quilt gallery of The Quilt Show site.
At the timeI had no idea who the quilter was - the name meant nothing to me.
But I just thought it was brilliant. It took me awhile to figure out how and what she did - I didn't see her explanation, just the quilt photo.
You start with an outline drawing of SaS blocks, and in this case they were on point, which added even more to the illusion.
And you color and shade (with pencils) according to your vision - just working with the patches,
ignoring the blocks.
After you've finished coloring, then you construct each block, using your coloring as a template.
I've been wanting to do this for a while.
Is it way more work than doing 64 identical blocks?
You bet!
But the results........
So you start with the blank worksheet.
And you get something like this:
http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/quilt...002977?page=13
(updated with a better link)
And here's another one that took the traditional block but worked some magic with the coloring.
http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/quilt...lts_id/1011202
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