I started my quilt by painting scraps of black cotton with Shiva Paintstitcks and rubbing plates. I let the fabric dry for several days, heat set and then washed before I brought to my embroidery machine. (I wanted to be sure I didn’t get any paint in my machine) I then embroidered the designs using variegated threads. To make my blocks I cut the black pieces into a random shape and started adding fabric, and then I fussy cut into a 9.5” block. After sewing my blocks together I adding more embroidery in the colored fabric using only black thread. The hibiscus block has a lot of bead detail and there are a few other beads added in some other flowers, I also used a metallic embroidery floss to add a hand stitch in the Echinacea flower. The top has a lot of shimmer it is hard to catch it in a photo and the paint on the black fabric has a chalkboard effect. The finished size is 27” square.
