Sunday, February 3, 2013

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.  

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