I entered it into our local guilds quilt show and was awarded a first place ribbon. I still wanted to do a little more work on it so I could enter it into the Unusual Material Catagory at Machine Quiling Expo in New Hampshire. By using some unusual material for flower stamens it would qualify for that category. What unusual material could I use as stamens? The first thing I thought of was coiled covered wire with a bead on the top. My husband helped me with this and coiled

I looked at the piece and decided to add some more elements. I tore apart some silk flowers and used the leaves to add and variety of texture and fibers. My fiber art quilt was finally starting to come together. I arranged the stiffened doilies on the flowers. I had smaller ones for the littlest flowers and larger ones for the larger flowers. I had to think about how I could sew those on. I was thinking about the binding too. Did I want a binding or a knife edge facing? I G

I bought a black/grey Grunge fabric for the background of my Hippy Dippy Flower quilt. My choice black Grunge was to make the bright yarn flowers "pop". I layered black fabric, batting and my Grunge fabric on my longarm to quilt the background. I quilted just straight lines about ¼ " apart. Fancy quilting might have distracted from the flowers. My couched flower and leaf appliques were dried so it was time to figure out how I wanted to arrange them onto my quilted backgroun

Growing up in the late 60s and 70s I was a little bit on the hippy side. I loved my moccasins that just had leather for the soles. I loved my hip hugger bell bottom blue jeans that I had embroidered all up the legs and had patches of fabric covering the thread bare butt. I sewed even back then. I was always drawing and painting. My parents were very supportive and even allowed me to paint on my walls. When I turned 16 I drove an old VW bug painted orange. It was a stick shift