From the Vault - Beach Quilt

From the Vault is a series where I show quilts I've made in past years.

This quilt, made in 2010, is an abstract representation of sunrise over an ocean beach.  It's a small piece, around 12" x 18" as far as I remember.  Right now it's in a box in the basement and I'm too lazy to dig it out and measure it.

I ripped a bunch of strips so I would have ravelly raw edges, then laid them over a piece of batting and sewed them down.

I used a variety of embellishments.  Here you see shiny gold-colored beads that are supposed to look like the sky glinting through breaks in the clouds.  

I like these beads - I also used them to join the front and back of my Voodoo Purse.

This is the sun.  It's a charm that a friend brought back from China for me, after she toured a cloisonné factory.

The three orange V's are gulls, made out of ribbon that has wire edges.  

A seashell button marks where the ocean waves roll back and forth over the sandy beach.

A sand pail (button), temporarily abandoned on the beach...

... maybe in order to check out these oysters.

 

For the back, I turned under the edges of the blue material and used a small running stitch to attach it to the batting, so no stitches would show on the front.