Quilts by Julie Ramsey
Archive for June, 2009
Double helix quilt
Jun 30th
It’s time to work on something geeky again, which means putting aside the quilt-block-of-the-month project I’ve been working on and starting in on a new pattern of some sort.
This one has been bouncing around in my head for a while now; it’s a fairly simple design, with paper-pieced blocks set on point. I don’t really like the spacing between the strands, though, and would rather see them staggered a bit. All things considered, though, it’s a neat effect that would probably work up fairly quickly.
The gene sequence is completely random right now… I’m halfway tempted to pick a ‘real’ genome and see if I could color-code that into the quilt as well.
Or maybe with something in the background, like this:


