Red October

I am loving all the red creations that have been posted so far.  This wall hanging was made from left over pieces from  Block Lotto scrappy string heart blocks from a couple of years ago.  I recently completed it and it now hangs on my daughters hallway wall as she loves red and hearts.   Which reminds me  - I must post this image on the Block Lotto blog site as well.

Seeing Red

This quilt was made about 13 years ago. It was a challenge from a group I belonged to called "Cover to Cover". It was based on a Dr Seuss book, Oh the Thinks You Can Think. At the time, I was learning how to dye fabric and one of the class teachers commented on how she disliked pink and never used it in a quilt. Some of the hand dyes from that class were incorporated. I named this piece  If You Think About Pink, Does It Make You See Red in her honor. haha

A more recent quilt using the color red is this one I call Heirlooms.

It is based on the Barbara Kingsolver book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. She describes the plethora of tomatoes that cover every surface of her kitchen in August each year. I envisioned a stack of tomatoes sitting on a granite counter top with light flickering in through the window.

 I love to use red in quilts. What a spark!

I don't do red . . .

Deconstructed Screen Print, FMQ and mounted on red canvas, sold.

Deconstructed Screen Print (2 images, three pulls each) languishing in a drawer.

Grape vine trimmings wrapped in red cotton.

 

Red October!  These sticks are the beginning of a sculptural idea.  Just wrapped, untrimmed, and waiting for me to finish the rest of the pile.  I rarely work in red.  I had to search for the screen printing images in red. But these sticks were laying on the table just as Kathy's email comes in. Serendipity.

Diane - yarngoddess

Red October

Hand dyed paper, threads and fabrics. Printed and stitched with tiny tiny stitching. 

Red October

In 2007 I dyed a small piece(fat 1/4 or less) of all the different white fabrics I had in various shades of red, pulled out a bunch of red buttons and made a red quilt.

Red

2007

This year I'm doing a daily stitching project, 365 red circles, that is using many of the leftover pieces from "Red".

I alternate between an appliqued circle and an embroidered circle, only about 100 more to go. Here's a close up of yesterdays appliqued circle in red velvet.

Some of my reds

Here are a few pieces I made that are predominately red.

From my Dragon Series - Coiled Dragon

7x10in

Colours of A Migraine

25x25

Trying to turn something positive from having them!

One of my 'Fantasticals' - A Wearable Art garment with a dragon theme.

And 2 Journals Quilts from a colour series - some of which were based on fruit.

Red October

You may remember the 25-year-old spy thriller book, later made into a movie, called "The Hunt for Red October."  I loved the movie, mainly because of Sean Connery, and every time the calendar flips to October I think of red.

So that's the challenge I'm setting for us in October.  But not just any old red -- let's find examples of red in our own work.

Here are some quilts from my past that I really loved -- and they're really red!  They're all from a series that I did on letters of the alphabet.

That's My Q, 2004

The Scarlet Letter, 2002

V-8, 2001