Studio Snapshots | Lots of Glorious Texture

I am finally back at work in the sewing studio! I spent the weekend working on an art quilt featuring my retro ornaments in jewel tones against a pure white background. To give the background visual interest I did some unevenly spaced matchstick quilting in white:

Here’s the finished background, it’s 32″ x 42″, give or take, here:

A closer look at all that yummy, uneven goodness:

The, I laid out the ornament placement and figured out what the main color for each would be:

Here I’m working on the layout of the ornaments:

Some more tweaking led to this, and then I had to stop or I would STILL be tweaking:

Here they are all stitched down:

And the best part, free motion machine sketching the ornaments!