Electric Blue

Juried into AQS Knoxville TN 2010 | Finalist IQA Houston TX 2010 | Juried into AQS Paducah KY 2011 | Juried into AQS Des Moines 2011

This Texas landscape was designed from some old photos I took near San Antonio TX in 1976. The background is pieced with batik fabrics to replicate nature. The house, out buildings, windmill blades and the bluebonnets in the foreground are Mylar turned, batted and hand appliqued. Windmill and background bluebonnets are digitized and embroidered directly on the fabric while the rocks, stems, leaves and flower centers and embroidered on organza and solve, then hand appliqued. Ink is used to shadow. A stipple design is used to quilt in the background and the sky is random curved lines for movement. The border is an echo of the unusual bluebonnet leaf. Two narrow bright blue piping strips were used to accent the quilt.