A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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Read between the lines, 1995
36" x 36"
Commercially available cottons and cotton blend, some over-dyed; machine pieced, hand appliquéd and hand quilted. Photo credit: Karen Bell.
Collection: Capelin Communications, New York, NY.
Based on the original haiku:
A flurry of words
puffs whitely into night air:
read between the lines
“A conversation on a winter’s night seems to end positively, but it contains the seeds of a friendship’s demise.”
This piece marks a return to my earlier style of complicated patchwork, but it has the limited palette of black & white with a few accents of color of much of my recent work. Rows of white and red squiggles suggesting handwriting or frozen speech contrast and alternate with a quieter subtext of appliquéd letters.