Paint Chip Challenge Quilt Top and Back

With my paint chip challenge quilt due May 5, I've pushed myself to the "it's time to make a quilt sandwich" stage. 

This is the quilt top you may have seen in an earlier blog post, when it was 60" X 72". 

I printed the quilt top photo to test how I wanted to slash and re-piece the top. By the way, I Googled cutting up a quilt top and the term for this is "slash quilting." 

The whole quilt top has been slashed and resewn nine times. It's now about 58" X 61". 

I think the disparate curves and angles make the design much more interesting, and my imagination has been piqued about designs to quilt. Mostly I've looked at the abruptly stopped bias tape curves and thought to free motion quilt to continue to the curve... and then, maybe fill in the space with big stitch hand quilting. I'd like to quilt with black perle cotton, but I don't have a lick of black in my perle cotton stash, nor is there any local place to buy Wonderfil or Aurifil. Will see.

Continuing to use stash, I pieced a quilt back that's 61" X 71". 

It was interesting to unearth two pieces of fabric purchased in other countries. The pindot from Australia was bought in 2009 when I was last there. The print from Brazil was a gift from hubs, brought back from that country in 2001 (25 years ago!) when he was there for six weeks on business with John Deere. I'm delighted about using these in this quilt back.

If you're unable to read what's written in bias tape, I'm okay with that. The black and white stripe camouflages the letters that are in Greek. 

What is says is "Jesus is Lord." Linda ✝