QUILT CONTENT

I have some finished work to show on the blog.


In an earlier blog I mentioned a trip to the Youngstown, Ohio Butler Institute of Art where I saw Robert Motherwell paintings & collages that screamed "Art Quilt!" to me.

Here is the first quilt I have completed based on Motherwell's series "A Little Spanish Prison." He was so moved by the Spanish Civil War & fascist regime that he used the same motif over & over again changing the colors. In his honor, I call this quilt "Guantanamo: A Little American Prison" and will let any other comparisons to the political world be yours to make.



All quilting kept very simple. Hand-dyed cottons, fused; frayed unbound edge beneath, measures 18"x 40".






This is "Breathe" is 24"x36"all fused hand-dyed cottons, with vintage brass buttons from my great-great aunt's button box. It is an adapted 9-patch with what I like to think of as a rib-cage and lungs through the middle.


This is "Endure," the piece a made in July in Mrs. Mel's Indianapolis workshop. It measures about the same as the one above, 36"/24".



It was my intention to limit the pallet contrasting the bold with the neutral, and then adding the yellows to make it pop.

I pray that I didn't ruin it with my machine quilting. I know that the stitch in the ditch and the straight sewing were fine, but I don't have confindence in the free-motion stuff. the quilting is done in a variegated YLI cotton thread.







And a close up.

I have one more new piece ready to quilt, maybe this evening, and hopefully will be able to share it soon.