I love blues and browns and I especially love them together!
Mother Nature loves blues that go to brown, too. Look at this hydragangea in different stages of its blooming life this summer. The final brown bloom hanging on is just as beautiful to me as the most cobalt of blues!
I recently made a slow stitched study in blues and browns.
It started when I made this notebook cover as a gift. The colors were so rich and entrancing that I wanted to use the leftover bits in another project.
The linen background came from some yardage a friend brought to our quilt guild from her mother’s stash. The mother was downsizing and moving – we benefited from the clean out!
The bits of blues and neutrals were from my collection of old and new bits of fabric and lace.
The hexagons led to a bee theme of sorts.
I experimented with various weights and colors of thread, added beads and buttons.
This format, the rolled up collage, is a favorite of mine. I used a thin layer of batting under the brown linen while doing all the stiching. For a backing to cover the messy seed stitching, I added a bit of an indigo overdyed linen sheet. I attached this with a tiny seed stitch with a fine thread; going only through the layer of blue and the batting.
