When I put this small quilt on my design wall for further consideration last week, I thought my dilemma was the next step in the background quilting design. Yesterday I realized it wasn’t the background that needed clearer thinking, it was the foreground. Here I have added a leaf and tendril to the bottom right […]
sunflower scrap
Sunflower Scrap III Done
The third one of the Sunflower Scrap series was completed last weekend and hung on Monday in my solo show. This 12″ x 12″ size is simply wonderful for experimentation. There may be a few more of these in my future. See the first two of this series here and here.
Sunflower Scrap 2 done!
This is the second of a series of 12″-square art quilts begun with a small scrap of printed cotton fabric. This one included a challenge of using three colors of blue thread and several sizes and patterns of free-motion quilting lines. Here are some details You can see where this idea began here. Earlier postings […]
Sunflower Scrap — Deux
I’m having a lot of fun creating a bouquet of sunflower scrap pieces. Here is the second piece well under way. I chose to use a square scrap for this one. Yes, those are a lot of pins. After stitching the pedals and seeds I was concerned about distortion so I blocked it. I used […]
