Radiating Color

I love working with bright colors so the problem for me was how to arrange them and how to limit my palette! I liked the idea of swirly lines and I created them by chopping up scraps of batiks with a serrated rotary cutter. I threw in some metallic thread for sparkle and free motion quilted all the little pieces down after fusing them to the black fabric first. Then I quilted the whole thing leaving room for the circle. I even bound it before the circle was ready to be appliqued on.

For the circle, I needlepointed a piece of canvas with yarns, embroidery floss and other fibers. I finally finished the needle point last week after working on it from the beginning. Obviously, I just wasn't applying myself! I cut away the excess canvas and sewed the circle to the quilt by machine. I crocheted two of the yarns into a long chain and couched it around the outside of the needlepoint to hide the canvas. I loved making this piece.