I’m so happy to have started the last quilt in my Chakra Quilt Series, the Crown Chakra Quilt! This will be quilt #7 and will be made of all white equilateral triangles. A white on white quilt using bright whites and what I’m calling dull whites. I’m hoping to use fabrics that are hard to tell apart until you get close.
On Facebook, I have a friend (Molli Sparkles) who created a gorgeous all-white quilt a few years back. He called it “No Value Does Not Equal Free”, and wrote about worth and value of quilts and quilt-making. Go check it out! This quilt was really inspiring to me and I’ve wanted to make an all-white/no-value quilt ever since… so this quilt project has been stewing for a loonnng time!
My original layout was a rectangular quilt shape with bright whites creating lines that criss-crossed over each other. However, this quilt is to represent a thousand-petaled lotus flower, so the straight lines in my design seemed incongruent. It was bothering me, so last night I sat down and re-designed it into more of floral, square, organic design.
![Crown Chakra Quilt final design layout](https://gaillizette.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Screen-Shot-2021-04-30-at-11.46.08-AM-999x1024.png)
The blue triangles in the pattern will be the bright whites, and they each will be made of 4 smaller triangles to give those areas more contrast to the dull whites (represented in grey) of the background. I’m using freezer paper and doing paper-piecing for the small triangles, to keep them as perfect as possible. I have 30 of them sewn already! I’m so happy to have this one started… this whole Chakra Quilt project has been a long one, and I can see the light at the end of this seven-year tunnel.
![Bright white small triangles sewn into larger ones.](https://gaillizette.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Crown-small-triangles.jpg)
Third Eye Chakra Quilt
Recently I also finished the binding on the Third Eye Chakra Quilt! All that is left is to make a hanging sleeve and label and that quilt will be in the finished pile! Then it will go to our living room to hang for a while. It’s time to start thinking about writing about this project seriously. I plan to write a hard-cover coffee-table type book about the making of these quilts, and the emotional work that went with their creation.
![Binding Third Eye Chakra Quilt](https://gaillizette.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/binding-Third-Eye.jpg)
Better get back to it. Lots of work ahead of me… but I’m happy to have it! Thanks for reading! Please note that I plan to be working on this site over the next month. I hope to make the site work better and faster. Loading times are just unacceptable, and I’m sorry for that. Bear with me as I work out the bugs… Thanks in advance!