Cascade
When making this quilt, Victoria Findlay Wolfe used the curve to give the simple braid technique a powerful twist. Bias is always an issue with curves, and this quilt is no different. Even when taking care to pin the centre and edges, you will still have a stretchy top. The rows help keep it in check, but Victoria advises “… for visual effect, sometimes a quilter has to do what a quilter has to do for a beautiful-looking quilt.”
She used two fat-quarter bundles of a similar palette to make them work as one for this gradational quilt. She as a way to help direct the gradation by making the solid Victoria also changed the pattern by having the across the design of the quilt so she could create more
