Purple and Yellow Pants

A few years ago, we went to Washington, DC.  We were walking to the Textile Museum from Dupont Circle, I think, and we saw this Sunday farmer's market.  The street was closed for the market and it was pretty crowded with early June vegetables, flowers , and baked goods.  These bright purple and yellow cauliflower caught my eye.  They were the colors of some awful pants that I had in sixth grade.  Oh, how we dressed in 1972.  I think one leg was purple and one was yellow with the reverse on the back or maybe the bell bottoms were yellow with a purple upper part of the pants.  Thinking back they were quite bright.  I loved them!!!

I am having fun stitching kona cottons; I finished this a couple of weeks ago.  These are scraps from a larger quilt ,  easier to finish the small than the large.  I hand quilted with narrow rows of perle cotton.  I am trying to decide if this is a table runner or a small wall hanging.  The quilt took on a life of its own.  I started with a black square added the scraps , Chinese coin style but I didn't like it at all.  A little slice and dice before it became a vertical piece.  Its bound with black and has a solid eggplant back. I realized sometime ago that the "big stitching" is lost on the back when a print is used.  Solids are much better. 

Today's finish.  I really liked the stitching on this.  I used perle cotton again, free hand stitched an outline for the concentric squares and finished with triangles in the border.  The kona cottons have such vivid colors.  I haven't washed yet but I will soon.  I wanted to finish so that I could carry both pieces to the Anchorage Modern Quilt Guild meeting tomorrow night.  Local Quilt Artist Diane Melms will be the  special guest speaker sharing some of her quilts and process. You can view some of Diane's work here - http://www.dianemelms.com/