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Walk This Way Analysis
When the MQG announced the Riley Blake Creative Rockstar fabric challenge, I immediately knew that this was a challenge that I wanted to take part in. As silly as it sounds, I kept getting a melody stuck in my head every time I looked at the fabric and it reminds me a little of the Sneakers that I wore when I was little.
The 1986 collaboration/revival of Aerosmith’s “Walk this Way” featuring DMC Run, inspired this quilt. I wanted the quilt to feel edgy and an almost a graffiti texture but still rock and roll!
I use several techniques for the manufacturing of this quilt including improvisational piecing, set in circle piecing, Bias quilting, applique, and exploiting areas of negative space. In addition to the quilting, I applied my background

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