This panel was created in January 2011 when there was not much colour in the landscape. I chose fabrics that made me think of the granite dry stone walls surrounding most of the fields in Aberdeenshire. I decided to experiment with loops of bias tape that I had created so that I could make a circle without a join. It was quite challenging to make the circles of bias tape lie flat. I used a curved longarm ruler to form curved quilted lines inside the “stones” and quilted pebbles freehand in the background squares. I have hidden my backtracking stitches underneath an interesting complementary bobbly yarn. Winter can last a long time in the North East corner of Scotland – there is not even a hint of golden sun (gold lamé) in this unusually subtle piece.
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