"Cattails" and New SAQA Note Cards

Studio Art Quilt Associates just released a new set of note cards and included my piece "A Glimpse Through the Lattice -- Cattails."

You may purchase your set here.

New Art Quilt Notecards - now in stock!

This set of ten 4" x 6" notecards with envelopes, features the unique works of SAQA's Juried Artist Members. The Art Quilt Notecards offer collectors and enthusiasts the opportunity to share a sampling of the many fine art quilts being created today.

Artists include: Deidre Adams, Julia Graber, Michele O’Neil Kincaid, Tracey Lawko, Hilary Rice, Lisa Flowers Ross, Sarah Ann Smith, Virginia Spiegel, Marianne Williamson, and Kathy York

A Glimpse Through the Lattice -- Cattails

A Glimpse Through the Lattice -- Cattails

Thanks to Amy's Creative Side for hosting another fine Quilt Festival.  

The process began by drawing a grid on the brown and gold background fabric. I fused “Heat and Bond” to the back of the printed fabric.

Then I cut squares from the printed fabric and fused them to the background.

Cutting and fusing only a few pieces at a time helped me keep the patches in order.

Quilted +/- 1/8”

Thinking of this quilt that I made back in 2014 …

 

… I positioned some sample chairs on the floor.

But then I decided to try a bouquet of cattails. Using paper I cut out a vase, reeds, and the cattail heads and auditioned placement.

 

 

 

Then I cut the cattail bouquet from dark brown fabric and

arranged it on the quilted background.

A Glimpse Through the Lattice – Cattails  

Cattails on the edge of a pond summon memories of simpler times, lazy summer days and the song of frogs croaking in chorus among the reeds. Birds alight atop the sturdy cattail stalks and herald the dawn. By bringing a bit of the country life indoors to create a cattail bouquet, one can catch a glimpse through the lattice of natural pleasures ad the cycle of life.

   

Size: 36” X 37”

Fabrics: Commercial Cottons

Techniques: Fused appliqué, heavily machine quilted

Finishing: Facing turned to back

This quilt will be in Little Rock, AR with The National Quilting Association’s (NQA) quilt show.


Linking to:

Dustin and Gina Visit, Georgi’s Birthday, and “Another Glimpse”

The long awaited day finally arrived. I picked up Dustin and Gina at Key Field in Meridian. Dustin enjoyed telling us about some history of the airport while we waited for luggage.

Georgi had her 5th birthday last week.

She had a hard time blowing out her candles. They kept reigniting, so Andy helped her blow.

Joel enclosed and finished out a cubby hole in their loft just a little bigger than a twin size mattress for a new place for the girls to sleep since they are boarding our kindergarten teacher, Claudia. Claudia is Sheila’s sister.

I’m stitching the cattails down on my quilt, “Another Glimpse.”

Since Dustin and Gina came home for a visit …

… we invited some of the cousins in for an evening of fellowship.

Teryn

We had a special lunch at Mi Ranchitos.

Phil and Amanda with Emily and Colton came for a night to visit with Dustins.

On My Design Wall

Now that I have changed out the white paper for the brown fabric to make a silhouette cattail bouquet arrangement, I’m struggling with the dark brown cattail against the spot of dark brown background.

By moving the arrangement down and to the left (from my earlier post) making it look like there is more room between it and the lattice, it puts the bottom of the vase in the dark brown fabric. I hope that is OK. Maybe it would help to add 2 more cattails. I’m so undecided.

    

Another Glimpse

I have finished quilting the background and window sill for the backdrop of “Another Glimpse.”

The quilting is a fun process for me, stitching +/- 1/8” apart.

I cut out the cattails and grass from white paper to make an arrangement. (I plan to use a dark brown almost solid fabric for a silhouette look.) I somehow always second guess myself with the details and need some questions answered. Should there be more or less grass? more or less cattails? And how should they be arranged? Is the pot too big? Should the whole arrangement be lowered? Is it too symmetrical?

I think I’ll work on something else for a while until I get some answers!