inspire me thursday: monochromatic art

This is a small mock-up of a larger project I have in mind for some art to hang in my red dining room.

My mom recently restored a dozen or so redwork squares that my great grandmother stitched up some sixty or seventy years ago (maybe even longer, she passed away in 1993 at the age of 93). As one of my Christmas presents this past year my mom is finishing three of them out with log cabin quilted borders in reds and framing them for one of my dining room walls. With one wall taken care of, I still have two to tackle. So I think I'm going to make a quilt and then applique something like this little collage on to it and then mount it like a stretched canvas. Or I'll make it three dimensional by building a facade to mount on the stretched quilt background, find a nice branch and perch a couple birds on the branch. Or maybe one of each. Who knows. Hopefully at least one will be accomplished before the end of the year!