With it getting chilly here in California, that means below 30 degrees, as opposed to 30 degrees below 0, a temperature we would have in winters in Wisconsin, where I grew up, I pulled out my cotton velveteen quilt to finish stitching. It keeps me warm as I stitch on it. I used thickened procion dyes and had a great time drawing line patterns on it. This quilt started out as a whole piece of fabric and I painted rectangles of solid, bright colors randomly on it with thickened dyes. After letting it dry a little, I used a syringe, brush and cardboard tube to draw and print line patterns, again using thickened dyes. It was a fun afternoon of serious play. Then I cut it apart and reshuffled the rectangles to repeat the colors and patterns in a more random way.
The next step was to quilt it. I have loved hand embroidery since my mom taught me years ago. I can remember stitching on stamped pillow cases, floral designs and girls in old-fashioned dresses and bonnets. Every time I embroider it brings back wonderful memories of my sweet mom. I still have her old Coats and Clark booklet of stitches, which is actually pretty good, and cost only a quarter, back in the day.
Here is a close-up of some of the embroidery on this quilt. I use mostly perle cotton, #8.
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