I have made a few small quilts. I won't dare call them art quilts. But at first I was bold enough to enter an "art quilt" into a quilt show. Apart from the border, the judge game me high scores; that was encouraging. I had copied pictures from my childhood, flower fairies, and I gave it a modern twist with a huge Marimekko flower.
I tried my hand on 'using found objects' on a tiny hand quilted fall quilt. The quilt I eventually named "Fall" was one with Isaac Newton watching the apple - in this case a button - fall from the famous apple tree. ( I can't help inserting a picture of the real apple tree, which we saw this summer,when visiting Newton's home)
Making that tree got me started making pictures - not quilts - using silk screening. I must admit that it has kept me away from quilting for some years. I have had several exhibitions of these pictures and sold many. I also experimented with marbling on fabric and made a quilt with the marbled fabric.
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| My first "Fall" quilt. |
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| The tree is silk screened |
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| The apple tree in the orchard at Newton's home in England. |
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| A collection of my pictures all done after I first discovered screen printing. |
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| I won a bunch of BOM stars made by the guild members. I put them together in a quilt top and Lena Colley quilted it. Then it made its way to Birmingham's sister city Hitachi in Japan. I wonder how they managed to translate the title. The dark spots of the backing fabric reminded me of watermelon seeds. |
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| Twin among kings; size is relative |
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| The Birmingham Quilters Guild send five quilts to this huge quilt exhibition every year. |
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| I discovered how to make marbled fabric. So much fun. |
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| More quilts to come, when I make some more fabric for them. |
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| For those, who visit Paducah for the quilt show, I hope this bread shop is still in business. |
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| I have my own trademark. |
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| Happy Halloween 2007 |
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