A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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First Dream, 1993
89" x 77"
Stenciled and commercially available cottons and cotton/linen blend; machine pieced, hand appliquéd, hand quilted. Photo credit: Karen Bell.
At the time, this was a real departure for me--an actual bed quilt! I was interested in making a rather romantic quilt about sleeping and dreaming. I also wanted the chosen text, an excerpt of a poem by Alice Meynell, to be the major design element. Even though it is almost entirely hand appliqued, it is obviously of a piece with my other work: it shows the same fondness for gray and black, a limited palette, accents of strange, bright colors, and of course, writing.