A Little Late, But Done

This year, Three Creative Studios is running a monthly color palette challenge. The one that just finished was supposed to be done on February 15th, but I didn't quite make that deadline. That was mainly because I really disliked what I was making, and I tossed it aside on February 14th!

The original quilt was a landscape. I decided to simplify, and make a tile-like design, that implied a landscape.

"Set Free The Wind", 12" square

I cut back the tile to add the tree. Before doing the quilting, I added a thread-sketched figure of a woman/goddess.

I intended to go around the figure one more time during the quilting, but I liked the way she seemed to float above the tile, so I didn't end up doing that .The quilting was done by stitching around the tiles.  If I do another piece in this style, I will try stitching  down the tiles before layering the quilt, and have the "grout" be the quilted part.

The hair might remind you of a young lady who appears on this blog quite often. But, I should probably say that the Daughter's nose is smaller and cuter.

More pictures from this challenge can be found here. Check them out, there is some pretty amazing work.