Plaid berries quilt -repurposed fabric

Here's a photo of a quilt I just finished.  This quilt has a bit of an interesting story.  Most of the fabrics are repurposed.  My quilting group had a fabric exchange of men's shirt pieces and unbelievably enough most of the pieces were similar in color; reds, rusts and salmons.  It made it easy to use them together.  The applique is felted wool pieces that started their lives as jackets - with the exception of the green that was a pair of pants.  The jackets were acquired from thrift stores and the green pants from the army-navy surplus store.  I felted the wool and used embroidery floss to applique the wool to the background.  There were 288 berries!!  I thought I'd NEVER finish with the berries!!!  I hand quilted this one because of the amount of time that it had taken to do all of the applique.  

Triangular hardanger

Some stitchers might think that this is a very oddly shaped piece!  This is my own design and I made this piece specifically to fit a corner curio cabinet that we have. 

Lacy edge hardanger

 

 

This is the most recent hardanger piece that I've done and it was finished probably 6-7 years ago.  I loved the lacy edge that I saw in a early 1900's pattern book - and it did have the instruction diagrams.  I had to study the diagrams and really focus, but I tried and got the edge to work out.  If I wanted to do the edge again, I'd have to study up again - but, hey, it worked out once.

 

My first hardanger

 

I believe that this was one of the first hardanger pieces that I ever did.  The basic pattern was in a beginning hardanger book and it was fairly easy to learn the stitches from the great diagrams that were shown.  This was a good learning piece.

White crochet

 

 

This is a little crochet piece that I did several years ago.  Sweet and easy.  I do like a portable little piece that can be worked on while football is on the TV or while I'm a passenger in the car.

 

Hardanger - football shaped

 

 

 

One of my favorite pieces that I've ever made - mostly because it has lavish embroidery and lots of wrapped bars.  I'm drawn to all hardanger with lots of embroidery and lots of wrapped bars, but those are the pieces that are the hardest to do!!!  I guess you get out of anything whatever effort you put into that thing.   

 

It's been quite a few years since I made this piece but I believe I actually followed a pattern that was in a book.

Cream hardanger

This little doily is cream color and has some drawn thread work.  I think that I modified a freebie pattern that was posted on nordicneedle.com and made it smaller.  This piece went fairly fast because there were few wrapped bars.