Repurposed

My piece Repurposed represents the effort I am making to use what I already have to make my quilts. I used well-loved vintage (family) linens that had stains and holes, and were rust dyed with old tools. The denim is from pants my son wore, years ago. The fabric came from the “scrap bag”. I added hand stitching. I love to do embroidery, but I am just beginning to add hand stitch and quilting to my work. “Hand quilting” was something I thought was too delicate and precise and time intensive. But I love the big stitches with thicker threads. Some of the thread I used was from previous dye projects where cotton thread was used to “truss” dye bundles. I am looking forward to doing more repurposed projects.