Here are a couple more quilts that were made BB - before blogging. This first one is named "It's not easy being green". I had bought some of this bright green fabric out in Charm at Charm Days in October 2000. I had taken it to quilt group and they looked at me like I was nuts when I said I was going to make a green quilt. I had a quilt made out of the fabric by the next meeting to show. Yes, there is a bit of purple in it, turquoise, and cobalt blue. I didn't buy enough different prints so I dyed a B&W striped fabric and a swirly design fabric to fill in. They came out a bit more yellow green, but fit in with the scheme. The quilt is 56" x 68", the block is called block party, and I free motion quilted it in a meander.
The next piece I made in 2009. I hand dyed the blue and green fabrics; the black and yellow are commercial fabrics.
It is 76" x 85" and free motion quilted. I used different Sulky rayon threads to quilt this improv piece. I used a facing style binding which matches the hand dyed back. I don't do those corner triangles any more when I do facing binding.
It is so much fun to look back at our work. When I was first quilting there was no thought of dyeing pieces to fill in. You were ahead of your time!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing those beauties.
I don't know what it is with people thinking a green quilt would be strange. I love green and have made many green quilts over the years. When I had a quilt shop in the mid 1980s people were amazed that I had green prints in my shop because the other shops didn't have them.
ReplyDeleteI love that second one! Do you remember that it was some aqua fabric that you dyed for me that got me interested in fabric dyeing?
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