Abandoned Cotton Field
Juried into AQS Grand Rapids 2017 – Fall Paducah 2017 – Des Moines 2017
The beautiful cotton flower grows at the end of plowed furrows in an abandoned field. The challenge for this quilt was seeds of hope. Cotton is used throughout the world. It is the fabric of our lives especially if you are a quilter. The plowed rows and some of the leaves are discharged. Those leaves are then inked. Flower, buds and other leaves and the house are turned on Mylar batted and appliqued by hand. Sharecropper’s house is printed on fabric and inked then batted. Some details are stitched after the batting is applied. Line quilting accents the furrows. Border is double piped and quilting follows the lines of the fabric.