Ultimate fine lines

For more than five years I have been making my quilts almost exclusively with pieced fine lines.  No matter what overall pattern or plan, I always separate bits of fabric with a pieced-in line.

Sometimes the overall pattern is a grid, at approximately right angles.

Sometimes I fracture the background with diagonal lines at random angles.

Sometimes the fine lines aren't all that fine; they vary in width.

I still have lots of permutations to work though, and don't plan to abandon these series (now at more than 30) any time soon.

But so far the very narrow lines have only served as separators.  So it seems inevitable that I would allow the lines to take center stage instead of merely working as supporting players.

Here's what I'm sewing this week -- a composition of fine lines sewed to each other.  In the detail shot, the gridlines on the design wall are an inch apart, so you can see how narrow the pieced lines are.

Turns out that the hardest part of this task is not the sewing but the pressing; the seam allowances don't always want to point in the direction I want them to.  Much work with the tweezers to flip the recalcitrant seams and press again.

I have an idea of how I plan to incorporate this piecing into an overall composition, but a lot of sewing (and pressing) to do first.  I'll keep you posted.


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Update: linking to Nina-Marie's "Off the Wall Friday" -- check it out to see what other fiber artists are doing this week.