New Hope, PA, Reflections
18″ x 28″
Machine appliqued, fused applique, free-motion quilting, fabric paints.
– Juried into Tactile Architecture at Int’l Quilt Festival 2003.
– Exhibited at IQF Houston, 2003, IQF Chicago, 2004 and QuiltMarket, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.
Based on a photograph I took of a New Hope, PA colonial house’s window box full of flowers, with dappled light hitting the siding and old glass. This art quilt is what I consider “watercoloring with fabrics,” letting the commercial batiks be my palette, allowing their mottled values to act as the light. Here’s a closeup of the machine quilting. I used a very loose style of quilting around the flowers, to simulate a watercolor image with pen-and-ink over it.
