Water Falling

Several months ago I made a pieced top with the traditional coin design. I chose colors to give the image of a waterfall.

I wasn't sure how I wanted to quilt it to further the idea of a waterfall.

 I made a few sketches on a white board.

 I loved the top and recently made another, similar top.  This would be a good place to try out my quilting ideas.

This is the back of that quilt. I love the quilting, but it wasn't giving the look I wanted on the front of the quilt. 

Back to the drawing board for more ideas.

 This bowl features an Art Deco style design for a waterfall.

 So does this vintage dressing table.  I really like the V design to depict water falling. I thought this would work well in my vertical pieced strips.

Then I found a photo of this Waterfall design necklace from the same era. I needed to figure out how to give this idea of drops falling to quilt in the white vertical strip.

Here is a close-up of my quilting. There are irregular V's with an occasional diamond shape in the colored strips. 

And here is the final piece.