cloth: county fair entries or from book to quilt

In the span of 6 months, I stitched 3 quilts that were all entered into this year's county fair. I thought I was going to stitch a painting from this book. 

But I ended up finding an image of Albers' Homage to a Square: Ascending. I do love the color palette, and this panel is going up on my wall.

 

The quilt that originally was to be a duvet cover as conceived In Stitches by Amy Butler. 

Instead I used her design and fabrics to make a large quilt, which took over a decade to finish earned me some praise from the judges.

  

I did copy some of the color palette of not terra cotta, but of cantaloupe in the quilt design from this book, Zen Chic Inspired: A Guide to Modern Quilt Design by Brigitte Heitland.

The judges deemed the quilt as "a graphically striking composition in contemporary colors." I am less in love with it and will likely give it away.

Let the quilting resume. Working on the Bay Area Modern Quilting BOM today.