Summer of Color week-6

The colors for this week are Raspberry, Tangerine, and a splash of lemon.

I had a piece of fabric already dyed with all three colors.  I love this color combo and have dyed a lot of fabric, ribbons, and thread in this colorway.  These colors say summer to me and remind me of eating sherbet, yum!  I had fun creating my block for this week.    

This week I followed the nature theme with a close-up of a flower. Just like all the other blocks in this series I fused squares of fabric and Pellon 805 together.  Then I cut pieces of fabric and fused them to the base to make my design.  I added free motion stitching to give the flower some shape..  I used french knots for the hand stitches this time around.  I love the texture that french knots add to the fabric.    

I also finished up all the blocks for Summer of Color and put them together into one art piece.  I decided to finish them all individually instead of sewing them into a traditional quilt.  I just don't do traditional when it comes to quilts.  Here are all the blocks with the backing before I quilted them.   

Here they are after I quilted them.  

Here's what the back of the bird block looks like.

I spent a while figuring out how I wanted to combine all these into one art quilt.  I decided to follow the nature theme and hang them from sticks.  I used my hand dyed rayon ribbon to hang them and to sew the blocks together in the centers.  I also wrapped the sticks with a ribbon that I dyed blue and green.  I love how this gives a glimpse of summer scenes and invokes memories of past summers.    

I hope that you like my art quilt. I enjoyed the Summer of Color challenge once again and look forward to next year.
Janelle