Tuesday 16 March 2010

Fun with hand dyed fabrics

Months ago, I cut into my stash of hand dyes to make a series of little quilts. I cut circles from some and backgrounds from others and put them together. These little quilts (8.5 by 11 inches) became my take-along project to guild meetings and orthodontist apointments. I wanted to practice my hand applique skills and I like hand quilting on small projects. I finished them months ago, and now finally took pictures. At left my favourite, with lots of different sizes of circles.

This other blue one has lots of hand quilted circles on it. Other than a few straight lines, all the quilting was freehand.
Here's all of them. I'm going to hang them in my front hallway, which has yellow-gold walls.

9 comments:

Pat said...

What a fun collection of mini quilts featuring circles!!! Your fabrics are such nice colors....good job!

Victoria Findlay Wolfe said...

these are so much fun! those hand dyed fabrics a re so fabulous! I love them as a group.

Theodora quilts said...

love the idea, like art and modern minimal at that , I thought of just placing mine on a streching board instead of quilting them and hanging them on the wall ,but I have'nt yet , your blog is great and the I can do it myself gene is excactly how I feel . great work.

Joyce said...

Very nice. I particularly like the blue one with the green circle and blue ones in front. It has great depth and the background is amazing.

Janet said...

I particularly like the one with many circles also. Did you do the hand dyes yourself?

Kathy said...

I love all the circle quilts......esp the red one!

KateKwiltz said...

They're beautiful! The one in the upper left is my favorite!

Helen in the UK said...

What a great group of mini art works. I think I agree with you about the favourite one :)

Myra said...

Awewome minis Brenda! That will be a lovely grouping in hallway!!! 8-)
Enjoy the weather!
Happy stitchings!

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