In July, 2009, I took a fun class from Rose Hughes on making landscape quilts. I say the class was fun, but the technique was definitely not something I enjoyed, unfortunately. I’m glad I tried it, but I won’t be doing it again, as far as I can tell. 😉
Anyway, I designed my quilt and even had all of the major construction finished at that time. However, I was supposed to use beads and embroidery to suggest plant life, and I was also supposed to use wool roving to make blossoms on the saguaro cactus I made as a memento of the very long time I lived in Arizona. I’m not much on embellishing, though, so my partially-completed quilt sat on the ironing board in my sewing room until yesterday.
With the encouragement of my quilting buddy, I decided to finish the quilting on the piece and forget the embellishing. I added a facing instead of binding, and now it’s all finished. Finished, as they say, is good. 🙂 This is titled “Lonely Saguaro” both because it’s all alone in its setting and because it’s so unlikely to be the start of a series of landscapes.
