Following my theme of the flora of Gran Canaria, I used the bougainvillea hedge seen outside our hotel. It was a riot of colour - pink, magenta, purple, red, orange, white and yellow - colours that I would probably not had the courage to put together in a quilt, so this became part of the challenge.
As I said in my last post, the 11" square format we have to use this year was a challenge for my so first cop out was to border a square that I could cope with. Using my own dyed fabrics in most of the colours I'd seen, I made an arrangement of half and quarter squares plus a border which includes some smaller half squares. I free machine quilted the flowers with a vein-type design on the petals.
While reading up on bougainvillea, I discovered that the very small white parts of the plant are in fact the flowers and the coloured parts are bracts, which are more leaf than petal! So I added some small flat white beads to represent the flowers.
As in previous years, I am using the same fabric to bind all the quilts to give them some uniformity. I had some fabric in my stash which is a mixture of browns/tans/greys and reminded me of the top dressing seen on many of the flower beds in Gran Canaria which I imagine is some sort of volcanic matter, so this seems very appropriate of use.
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On to the next one....
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