My Gingerbread Porch

Juried into AQS Lancaster PA 2011

In 1992 I designed this gingerbread porch when my husband and I built our Victorian farm house. I wanted to continue this whimsical feeling in this quilt. The background is pieced. Gingerbread, Clematis, and leaves are turned on Mylar, batted and hand Appliqued. Vines are couched with invisible thread. Buds are digitized from my drawings. Some details in the background are thread painted on the longarm. Clematis center is waxed floss covered with a disk of floss. The Quilt design is random vines. The narrow red piping repeats the flower color.