I had this thought ... what If I made little quilts, beaded &embellished then framed them as art? A bit like the crazy quilts of the 1800's, but decidedly modern. This is not a new idea by any means, but I've not seen quilts likes these being framed.

This set is named Ophelia.

I wish this was in better lighting, but that's what ya gets in the sewing room. I need to also take some detail pictures of the embellishments.

The backgrounds are made of various batiks and hand dyed or hand painted fabrics in brown, blue and tan with a tiny bit of green. The only exception is that nice dark chocolate brown which was very expensive suede that Victor had me make a table cloth out of. The final effect looks very "world traveled" and almost antique, yet still chic.

Each quilt is about 6" wide x 14" high. The beads are czech glass bronze rondelles that look like tiny drops of liquid, large & small denim dyed shell discs that match the solid hand dyed blue fabric, real  freshwater pearl flats in iridescent cream and a single small abalone disc.

What do you think? I am considering selling the set for $80.