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Frittilaire Imperiale - The Crown Flower Quilt |
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Written by Martha Marques
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Sunday, 03 January 2010 12:54 |
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In the Spring of 2001 I had my first exclusive quilt show at Scott Potter's Gallery on High Street in Portland. This quilt was inspired by some of the gilded papers that he used in his exquisite decoupage work. This is the first quilt where I used silk as the background fabric, and also the first quilt where I used gilded thread for the quilting stitches. This subtle gleam of gold is not easy to capture in photographs but adds a sense of opulence and antiquity to the finished quilt. I wanted to create a piece that felt rich and ageless. |
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The floral design is still based on the eight fold Hawaiian style, but I hand painted on the dyes in a way that I had first experimented with on Fertility. You can almost see the blue/purple shoulders on the red Crown Flowers where the green dyes overlapped with the orangey reds in the flowers themselves. The floral design is all cut from one piece of fabric and almost completely fills the 45" square for this wall quilt. This quilt is available for purchase on my Etsy site. |
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Last Updated on Monday, 11 January 2010 12:24 |
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