Rainbow Magnum Opus

I was terribly slow with posting these photos of this massive color explosion of a quilt, but I was not that slow in completing it. This was completed in June for a custom order, and photographed at Esalen, in Big Sur, CA, while I was attending the annual Writers’ Camp retreat there (which was a productive and toast-filled experience which I hope to repeat). ​

The final piece is about 110 inches tall and 115 inches wide, a SuperKing, if you will, and each square is 3 inches. Quilting the orange peel curves on each square on my domestic sewing machine was a Herculean task, but as always it was made more enjoyable by the existence of audiobooks. 

The largest golden stars were quilted geometrically while the smaller ones were simply outlined with stitches. I think I ended up using 10 different thread colors. 

It’s hard to convey just how large and unwieldy this quilt really is. I wanted a full square shot of it, but it would have required a ladder, a barn, and a team of 6 people.  

Here are my two loveliest assistants attempting to wrestle it into photographic submission: 

The Rainbow Magnum Opus quilt was a custom order. You can order your own custom quilt in the Custom Shop.