Five by Five (by Five by Five)

Start small. Repeat until it multiplies like Tribbles. That's my motto. I challenged myself to make some mini 5"x5" art quilts. I feel happy with that size. It finishes quickly and forces me to keep it simple.

And then my brain gets grandiose. I start thinking: what if I make 25 of these and mount them on little 5"x5" canvases, then hang them on the wall in a 5x5 grid? In fact hang them so they can be shuffled every day in a different order and each canvas rotated in a different direction so the overall design is always changing.
So I've started:

I'll have to stitch these down onto the canvases and paint each canvas to match its little quilt. This won't be viewed until my show in August at the Buddy Holly Center (shameless plug) but here are some more of the little five by fives. All of the embroidery work and embellishing is my own,even that butterfly, which I did about 25 years ago.

I have about seven more to make before the grid is complete. Can't wait to play with the layout.