Hoffman 2018-An Octopus’s Garden

This Hoffman Challenge took a very pictorial fabric (see below) and I wanted to completely disguise those patterns. The individual circles in the design were overprinted with gold leaf and the bead and glass stamen embellishments added. Unfortunately one of the stamen was broken in transit but this still travelled with the collection for a year.

The circles were created individually and then applied to a velvet substrate. This was quilted in a Karen McTavish style - she calls it Cs but I tend to think of it as leaves. It is a free machine pattern I use quite a bit. The whole is bound with black satin so it is a very rich looking quilt