One meaning of synthesis is to combine a number of different pieces into a whole. To me that means a quilt. This quilt contains 800 different pieces sewn together to make a whole entiny.
I made the top in 2006; and now I finally quilted the top and made it whole. I think it deserves the name, Synthesis.
This is probably my favorite quilt that I have ever made. It has everything that thrills me in a quilt -- many, many different fabrics including a stripe fabric, lots of small pieces, and a fun and easy graphic block with a history. For 10 years, I kept thinking my artritic hands would improve so I could hand quilt it; but I was fooling myself. Finally, I decided if the quilt was ever going to see the light of day, I would have to machine quilt it. Then, it took me another 5 years to work on my machine quilting skills. I still don't feel as though I have done it justice with the quilting, but I still love it!
The Stats: Synthesis, 2006-2021, 47" x 47", Machine pieced, machine quilted.
For more about the history of Betsey's Block check: Q-BITS: BETSEY'S BLOCK (qbits-salmagundi.blogspot.com).
