95 % Chartreuse

A guild challenge was to make a monochromatic quilt using one color, with the option of adding up to 5% of the complementary color. The required measurements are 15″ x 45″. It seemed like a great introduction to making a ‘challenge’ quilt. And it was challenging!

Hand-dyed, Commercial Fabrics, and Repurposing

The picture above shows more detail. The quilt is made from wool, cotton, silk, linen, rug warp, beads, roving, yarn, and threads of varied weights. Some of which I dyed, and some of which others dyed. The commercially dyed fabrics make up the bulk of the quilt. There are also repurposed and recycled materials used. This piece includes tones, tints, shades, and the true color hue of chartreuse and red violet.

Full Quilt

It is called CharSeuss because the piece evokes an underwater, Dr. Seuss-like garden. The challenge pushed me to really consider how value plays a bigger part in design, rather than color.