July Blue Sky --1993

July Blue Sky  29.75x52.5” 1993

Hand dyed cottons, silks, commercial fabrics, including lame, batiks and decorator metallic prints. Thread schnibbles, and twin needle stitchery, machine pieced and machine quilted.

  

This quilt pretty much held the kitchen sink. Everything that could be done (in those days) was done to this piece. I made fabric from thread shreds, placed on a base fabric and stitched (to death) over it. Then I cut it up and pieced it with other fabrics. The sky was dyed as an experiment, and the ‘houses’ at the top were pieced and then appliquéd over that sky fabric.

Another example of what one does on the way to finding one’s own style. Sometimes the only way to discover it is to try everything, and toss out what doesn’t work.

This is the picture hanging hook I mentioned in yesterday’s post. The rail pictured here is my old system. The new one will be hooked to a lip on the rail tucked under the crown molding. Hard to imagine, but just wait til midweek and I will have the finished product to show.