Wild Grasses

This quilt is from a challenge to use the threads in a packet from The Thread Studio in a quilt. You had to use some of each of the 5 threads and could add whatever else you wanted. Each packet came in a different colourway ... mine was copper-ish.

The threads were similar in colour but different in texture: ribbon, chenille, wool, knobbly string and a mixture of wool and the knobby string. I added some pearle cotton threads in similar but richer colours at the bottom. Sewing on the bottle-brush looking flowers was a difficult to figure out but turned out better than I expected.

Wild Grasses was exhibited at the Sydney Quilt Show in 2005, along with Red Rover, Red Rover, Let Kathryn Come Over!, the quilt from a recent post.

This quilt was inspired from this photo of some wild grasses glistening the sunlight from somewhere near the Bay of Islands in New Zealand.