My name is Charlotte, sometimes known as Ms Lottie, occasionally as The Slightly Mad Quilt Lady. This is my blog, where you'll find me writing a lot about my quilting and textile arts and a little about my family's life in a small seaside town in New Zealand. Haere mai!

Monday, August 31, 2015

12 x 12 inch colour challenge - GREEN

I'm making some 12" x 12" quilts to enter in the Aotearoa Quilters colour challenge.  These will all be exhibited together at a couple of different venues and when they are all in the wall together they look fabulous.

This time around the colour is green.  


My chosen subject is the Puriri moth.  A huge native moth, whose catapillar stage burrows into and eats the Puriri tree.


The moth is the most amazing green colour (the catapillar is a bit icky grub-like so we won't dwell on it).


I had fun declaring a ruler-free day and making these backgrounds out of linen, cotton, vintage cloths, white on white prints and anything else interesting I could lay my hands on.


But you may have noticed they aren't GREEN!  And you're right.  That bit comes next.  Stay tuned. And you'll see what I'm going to do about that.

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4 comments:

  1. Stitching LadyAugust 31, 2015 at 8:22 PM

    Oh, ok, when the green ist still coming ....I love the moth and even more the background. Waiting for the next green post....
    love
    Anneliese

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  2. Cut&AlterSeptember 1, 2015 at 6:04 AM

    Will stay tuned for the green bit! When we lived in NZ we had a HUGE puriri tree in our back garden - it still gets talked about often and very fondly .....

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  3. MarleneSeptember 1, 2015 at 8:36 AM

    Loving this so far and have to say I did wonder about the green!! Look forward to more.

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  4. Mystic QuilterSeptember 1, 2015 at 9:11 PM

    Now this has grabbed my attention - can't wait to see what happens next!

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