Storm at Sea

Storm at Sea uses small changes in straight angles to create an optical illusion of rounded shapes. It's a classic pattern, and one of our favorites! Here is an award-winning quilt made with paper piecing and gorgeous custom quilting.

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Surviving the Storm of 2020, made and quilted by Linda Matteotti

Winner of a President's Choice award, this quilt is a fascinating take on the traditional Storm-at-Sea design because of its reverse colorization scheme.  Can you pick out the individual blocks?

 

Surviving the Storm of 2020 by Linda Matteotti was inspired by one of the Quick Quilt patterns in the Electric Quilt software.  The quilt is 100% paper pieced (beautiful!)  The computerized quilting was custom designed and executed by the maker.  Two layers of batting were used to give the quilting dimension.  Linda says that the project was "a great way to survive the Storm of 2020!" 

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 Image credits: Photos were taken by Quilt Inspiration at the 2025 Quilt Arizona show.