left panel of Stonehenge piece in progress

I am working on the left panel of my Stonehenge triptych.  So far I have 2 figures sewed down, and in between what I hope will be recognizable as a sheep.  I am thinking of the quilting patterns to use, and I figure I will apply the spirals and concentric squares that I have used on the other two pieces.  They came from a picture of a Pictish stone that I found online.  I plan to face the three panels and hang them from one piece of lathe when they are finished.

Progress on Market day at Stonehenge

I have finished two of the three pieces that will make up my Market day at Stonehenge triptych.   Although the Picts came after the builders of Stonehenge, I decided to use two designs I found online on a Pictish stone, the spiral and concentric squares as quilting designs.

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Market Day at Stonehenge

I used some hand dyed fabric that I had bought at Paducah from Wendy Richardson for the background of the piece.  I wanted to do a piece based on stone circles.  I pieced together the background using a raw edge applique and embroidery stitches.  I looked through my stash for brownish fabric for the  large stones.  I hand quilted the piece using embroidery floss.  I am going to make this into a triptych.  I put a road made from purple sari cloth in the bottom right hand corner that will connect with  a piece on the right. I will also have a similar size piece on the left.  Rosemary

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A Beast journal for Rosie

My granddaughter was nine years old today.  She loves creative writing, so I bought her a nice writing journal and  made a fabric cover for it.  I made an animal, like Jude Hill does in her Patchwork beast class.The face is made from a piece of raw silk that my dad brought back from Japan in the 1950s. I had used men's ties to dye it. I think the journal will hole many "beastly" stories.

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Dragonfly in Amber

I finished another of the Gabaldon covers.  This one is Dragonfly in Amber.  I didn't use gold as the background, as I had a beautiful piece of dupioni silk, rose colored, and thought it resembled wine. The gold is from a discarded necktie.Off the Wall Fridays