I started this a couple years ago and finally finished it....or at least I think I finished it! I didn't start out with a plan, I was just making the color wheel center because I like making "hexie" flowers and I like color. Then I decided to add silhouettes of cats from a black fabric I had that had color swirling through it.
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I'm still thinking about adding some 3-D butterflies....just out of the cat's reach and maybe flying up to the corner flowers. 2-3 at most. We will see. Haven't totally figured that out yet.
My friend Linda B did the background quilting. I didn't want the flowers and cats quilted but she thought they were too loose without quilting, so I hand quilted around the center of the color wheel flowers and did some embroidery on the corner flowers. Good thing nobody ever sees the back of my wallhangings, although I used a "busy" fabric that doesn't show my large stitches particularly.
It was a fun project and something accomplished finally!
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4 comments:
This is beautiful! You really have such a creative mind. and there are so many gorgeous fabrics. I came to my old computer to look...it has a bigger screen. I love that cat face and then on those bottom green hexies on the lower right...love the added embroidery. Oh, how I wish I had your imagination.
Thanks, Rose! I had a lot of fun with this quilt. I love color and it just sort of kept growing as I made flowers and added them. I got so tired of working on it at the end that I didn't do all the green leaves with embroidery, but I should have. May add more when I take it down to do the butterflies...if I do them...and I've made a label for the back that I need to sew on.
Lovely to hear from you, Mary. What beautiful quilting ... and I love the Chickadee on your side bar! Greetings from England.
I love how you incorporated color into this piece.
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