This is my latest quilt made for Fast Friday Fabric Challenge. The requirements were that we use fungi is some shape or form. I made the two white mushrooms separately, stuffed the one with fiberfil and used a layer of quilt batting in the other one to make them stand out from the surface. I appliqued them on. I wanted to depict moss on the tree in the background, so I used textile paint. I used a textile marker for the surface coloring on the mushrooms. I had some leaves that I had collected and dried from last fall and a few from a florist's arrangement. I stitched these on by machine. I was surprised at how supple the oak and maple leaves stayed. I thought they might disintegrate as I stitched them, but they didn't. This little quilt 13" x 16.6" only took 4 hours to create. My husband says if I hadn't told him this was a depiction of mushrooms, he couldn't tell what they were. I told him he needs to think more creatively. At any rate, it was fun quilt to make and something quite different from the normal quilt.
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