Friend Of Twelve by Twelve- Orange Reveal

When I think of the color orange, I think of carrots or oranges.  Since my garden still contains carrots (and my tiny orange trees have only marble sized green orbs) I went for carrots.

This is all hand, needle turned appliqué. I love, love, love the way needle turn looks and feels when you run your fingers over the surface. The blue fabric is my own painted fabric.  Everything else is commercially printed.  I had intended to add more of the feathery carrot leaves but doing embroidery on the painted fabric was very very difficult.  Let's pretend a woodchuck has trimmed all the carrot tops, shall we?

This little quilt was so much fun to make.  I am all excited about making a few more of these this month while there are still things growing in the garden.  Beets!  Lettuce!  Turnips!  I, luckily, have a nice half yard of the "dirt" fabric and most of the half yard of sky blue I painted.  The green is in short supply.  I have a 4 inch square scrap.  I will try painting some yellow green.

To all the Twelves, thank you for your kindness, friendship and the opportunity to "play along" for all these years.  My collection of quilts is like a scrapbook of happy memories which I will always cherish.