Rejects!

What do you do with the pieces of fabric that have been rejected from a quilt?

I have been designing a very special quilt for a very special purpose and a lot of the fabrics that I have dyed and embellished have "hit the cutting room floor" so to speak.  The pile was starting to get a little large and some of the fabrics I really love.

I couldn't help myself (again!).  I made another wall hanging to trial some of the ideas I have for the "very special quilt"!

Unfortunately the rusted fabrics just didn't make the grade but when they are all put together without any distracting colours they seem to develop a live of their own.

This little quilt is still a WIP.  I'm only half way through quilting it then I need to add more paint and a few other embellishments (beads maybe?!).  My sewing has been slowed up a bit.  On Friday night I picked a fight with our  very large, just sharpened, Chef's knife! Six stitches later in the heal of my left hand, I am feeling a bit sore and very silly!  Now we have two invalids in the house!  What a pair!

This photo, I took on my way to work on Wednesday, The Winter Solstice!  The Solstice was at 3.16 AM EST and I took this photo at 7.15 AM EST.  Sunrise over the Derwent River through a volcanic ash cloud (from a volcano in Chile). The sunrises and sunsets have been spectacular since the ash cloud has been around but the airlines and their passengers are not at all happy!

Hugz