Purple Flowers
(38 x 22 inches)
2003
Detail .... Detail

This was an interesting quilt to do because it started out to be a watery landscape. (Don't ask!) I started with a blue and pink batik fabric. I sliced that fabric into vertical strips and wove it with two other fabrics - cut into horizontal strips - a pink on the top half, and an aqua on the bottom half of the background. If you look at the detail picture, you'll have a close-up view of the flowers I used. As I was cutting them out of the fabric they were printed on, I noticed that what I had left over was also shaped like a flower, but in the negative. That was intriguing, and that was when I decided to try for a vase of flowers. I also fused on leaves from another fabric, and used some buttons for the centers of a few of the "negative" flowers.

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