there’s a lion in there

I made this little quilt for our recent quilt show. All our members were tasked with using some of the fabric we had created at various workshops over the years. In the past we have had workshops on eco-dyeing, painting, stencilling, stamping hand-dyeing and so on, which results in various pieces of fabric without a particular plan to use them! So for this one, I started off looking through some of the pieces I had in my cupboard to choose something to work with.

This piece was stamped with leaves that had been rolled with some paint and pressed onto the cloth. Blues and purples are always my favourites.
I added to that some hand-dyes that I made quite a few years ago and some commercial fabrics. I don’t know how I came up with the design, but I just started with the idea of making something using the quarter-square triangle block.

I don’t use my Sizzix cutter that often but thought I should make the effort this time so used it to cut the triangles. The bonus of course is that I could just work with the size die that I had and base the quilt size around that. I incorporated some Tula Pink tiger/lion fabric which had the effect of looking like an animal was hiding and peeking out.



I named it ‘There’s a lion in there!’