I had a little bit of dark, mossy green left over from the art quilt that I made for my brother and sister-in-law, so I thought that I would randomly piece it with some other greens in my stash and see where that would lead. I just kept adding, inserting, making straight and curved edges and tossed them up on the design wall. Here it is after a couple of days of playing around. I had no idea what was going to be made from these pieces. Sometimes, just playing around with fabric is just plain fun!
Somewhere along in the process, I decided that a little bit of black and white striped fabric would add some life to the otherwise dark piece. I cut 1" strips and inserted them to show 1/2" in some areas, and 1/4" in others.
I have to tell you that it was a bugger to sew together. Some of the seams were curved, some were straight, there were inset and Y seams. I had to chop some pieces off, add some pieces here and there, and make more units to fill the large empty spots. It was a good thing that I had an audio book to listen to so that my mind was in a calmer zone while I struggled to sew this piece together. Even so, I did have to rewind the book a few times when I realized that my problem solving brain had overtaken my listening brain.
After it was sewn, it emerged as an aerial landscape. So, I went with the feeling of a landscape and started adding hand embroidery stitches. I started with white.
It is actually much darker than the photo shows. Anyway, I hope you like it so far!
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