Tuesday, October 22, 2013

72 blocks :: One & Two

These both have the same base fabric - a beige cotton flat sheet. I spent a few summer days (maybe six years ago!?) sun printing large positive and negative circles onto it to make a whole cloth quilt that never happened. I worked on it in the sunny front yard of our house. In the back yard of that same house was a big beautiful cottonwood tree whose leaves would cast the most beautiful flickering shade. My oldest says he still remembers that other house.

I recently dipped a lot of this painted beige fabric into a pot of walnuts and I like the way it softened the blue and green paint.


I stitched the single line leaf first and thought the next one would be better with an additional dark line but I much prefer the first one. Simple.

These blocks are part of "72 blocks" and began here.

5 comments:

  1. your sense of line, colour & stitch is so very fine !

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    1. I can't stop stitching leaves - my favorite I think.

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  2. Lovely quiet, steady stitching. Walnut dye is great. :o)

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    1. The single line of gold thread is very quiet - like a leaf. : )
      I have the longest batch of walnut fabric still in the pot and hope to bring it out soon to have a look.

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  3. Susan, these hold that flicker and flutter perfectly, and i am one to say that. watching
    Cottonwood leaves here over and over and over....their gift of reflection
    and i think, kind of like You, how you reflect Them....
    love

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