That is the name of my next project. Since the Bernina is off getting it's 10 thousand mile checkup, I needed some hand sewing to keep me occupied. Additionally, since we're all aflutter with the beautiful broderie perse quilts coming in to the museum for the next exhibit, I thought it might be interesting to try one myself. The true sign-from-God came when I found this piece of fabric during my Schooled by my Stash excavation. It isn't as O R A N G E as it looks - for some reason my camera takes poetic license with color. Anyway, I'm nervous as heck cutting it up, but as my Yoda & Sherpa quilting guide Debbie explained to me, "Well, you can just sew it back together, you know...."
So I'm cutting it up in to bits and trying to arrange it so that it will look like a beautiful little tree coming out of an elegant pot. The background color is a burnt orange nubby lovely, but now I'm thinking I might put it on a cream muslin background and use the burnt orange for pieced borders. This, my very first attempt at broderie perse, will be a wall hanging when it grows up. Since I am not going to fuse it or use machine applique, it will truly be a "no faux bro" project. I figure by the end of it I'll either love or hate needle turned applique. Either way, it is one quilt I'll get to take of my bucket list.
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