Four-in-Art: Colour: I've Got the Blues: Efficiency

It's reveal day for the latest round of Four-in-Art quilts.  I've been waiting for this day for a while, I had the privilege of coming up with this quarter's theme of I've Got the Blues.

And so, may I present, efficiency.

  E-Fish-in-Sea.  Get it?  I know, I'm sorry.  I was working on it and trying to come up with a good name and the boys were in the next room talking about efficiency in one of their games.  I thought it was funny.

Anyway. This quilt is the culmination of different things I've wanted to try and is directly inspired from the following picture taken at the City Museum in St. Louis.  You can read about our trip *here*

I really wanted to recreate this floor.

 So I did.  The light blue is one piece of blue fabric onto which I fused all the fish and tile pieces.

 I then overlaid the whole thing with a blue netting and quilted it.

 I knew I'd chosen the right color net when Mr. Riley walked by and asked me how I had turned my quilt blue.

 The fish were all cut from upholstery fabric samples that a friend gave me before she moved. 

 Different colors of blues and different textures as well.

 I think really the quilt could hang either way.  As you can see I've rather grown from the original 12"x12" quilts we started with.  This one finishes at 41" x 34"

 A shot of the back. I used up an ooooooooollllllld piece of blue star fabric from my mom's stash.  I think it went to a good use.

I'm not alone in these artsy endeavors, so please go visit my partners in art.

Betty Ayers	https://www.flickr.com/photos/toot2
Camilla Cathro	http://faffling.blogspot.co.nz/2016/11/four-in-art-rising-above-blues.html
Catherine Chisholm	http://www.knottedcotton.com/2016/11/four-in-art-colour-ive-got-blues_56.html
Elizabeth Eastmond	https://occasionalpiece.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/six-ways-to-blue-a-four-in-art-quilt-for-november-2016
Janine Green	http://www.rainbowhare.com
Nancy Myers	http://www.patchworkbreeze.blogspot.com
Rachel Riley	http://www.rachel-thelifeofriley.blogspot.com
Simone Bradford	http://quiltalicious.blogspot.com
Susan Snooks	http://patchworknplay.blogspot.com

Our group blog is http://fourinart.blogspot.com/
Tomorrow I'll come back and talk a little more technically how I put it all together, and some advice on dos and don'ts if you want to try a mosaic quilt yourself.