Transparent Ribbons

Skill Level: 2 out of 5 (Confident Beginner)

Pattern Description:

Transparent Ribbons uses overlapping shapes to explore fabric value and transparency techniques. The way the blocks relate to one another creates rippling chains, like a swirling candy ribbon. The pattern includes instructions for creating your own version of the quilt in 6 different sizes: baby, lap, large lap, twin, queen, and king.

Quilt photography on back cover by Kitty from Night Quilter (nightquilter.com). This design was originally published by Quilter’s Planner (quiltersplanner.com).

I am keenly drawn to thinking about transparency when you consider it as a motive: removing the sense of needing to live behind a veil of secrecy and living fully and authentically is a large personal goal. Transparent Ribbons is a design doodle that I started with the goal of creating overlapping shapes for color value / transparency fabric selection play. The angled design and way that the blocks relate to one another create a rippling chain, like a swirling candy ribbon or, more metaphorically, like how choices in life can ripple and cascade.

Sizing / Finished Measurements:

Baby – 36″ x 48″
Lap – 48″ x 60″
Large Lap – 60″ x 72″
Twin – 72″ x 84″
Queen – 84″ x 96″
King – 96″ x 108″