A *RED* study quilt

Red is one of my favorite colors. It was a joy to work on this quilt.

It all started with two pieces of art cloth. The one you see above with washable paper-cloth made from recycled newspapers and 4 different color reds: salmon, orange, pink, dark red and light red. And a greenish, white and pale pink colored cloth.

Because I wanted more lettering in my design pieces of laminated magazine clippings were applique in some areas.

Embroidery stitches were applied all over the surface following the shapes originated by the dye. Different color red threads were used.

Only in one area white thread was used.

After all the textured embroidery stitching was done was time to sew the three layers together with the help of the sewing machine. I followed the square shapes and used 100 weight thread.

I love the texture created by the different weight of threads applied by hand and machine and the different texture created by the recycled newspaper, magazine clippings and paint.