Maybe Equal?

The Maybe Equal? quilt is finished. The design reminds me of greater-than and less-than signs in mathematics, thus the name. (All of this math talk made me think of my undergrad advisor. He was my favorite math instructor and always used the word thus.) 

This donation quilt is made with a variety of grey fabrics for the background and then yellows, oranges, and turquoise fabrics for the 'lines'.  

The quilt is 51-1/2" square and is made with 289 HSTs. It was easy and fun to make and I love the all of the grays in the background. (HST means half square triangle - a square with a triangle for each half. An example: in the following picture, a yellow triangle and the gray triangle to the right make a square, a HST)

You can't easily tell that the colored stripes are quilted differently than the background but they are. The stripes are quilted with a lazy eight motif and the background is stippled. I used 40-wt Glide #10879 Sterling gray thread.

I decided to quilt the areas differently so I could practice rolling a quilt back and forth on the frame as I quilted it. I put the quilt on the frame and basted it using my longarm. Then I was able to roll it in either direction to quilt - no problems at all! I probably could have removed it and put it back on the frame without a problem. It's nice to know that I can quilt a whole stripe without breaking thread.

The back is a dark print with many colors from my stash.

Today the sun has been out and the wind has finally died down some. It was so nice to wear sweatshirts instead of coats while we were out doing errands. The weather people say we'll see 70s tomorrow - I'm ready!