Back in 2012 I made a bunch of 6" cyanotypes from some photographs I'd taken on one of our trips to Asilomar. It was a lot of fun, and you can read about it here, but I never knew what to do with them.
A month or so ago I thought I needed a center block for this year's Cotton Robin, so I pulled one of the blocks out and did some improvisational piecing around it to make it up to size. When I was finished though, I decided I liked it too much to send it off for the round robin. Incidentally, I made another block for that only to realize that I'd neglected to officially sign up this year. Anyway, I started pinning the rest of the cyanotypes on my wall to see if I could make a small quilt with them. There weren't very many, but I just kept rearranging and rearranging and piecing and cutting and piecing until I had something I liked. It was a very freeing way to work, I don't do a whole lot of piecing and it was fun to find old scraps and make little groupings.
I wound up with this final composition- lots of different types of piecing but it was fun to assemble. Come back next week to see the quilting and the finished piece!
Very cool vision come to light. You've created a beautiful wonder.
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