Thursday, January 19, 2023

Color Wheel Cats...

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.

After picking out a background and adding the border it seemed like it needed more color, so I made the corner flowers.


I like the orange flower with the cat face on one petal :-)

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!