Red Sky: Cosmic Illusion #16
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Red Sky: textiles, batiks, threads, batting, cording, crystals, beads, button, 72"x 40", 2007.
A large quilt formed mostly from traditional blocks, but with fun, conceptual overtures.
| I was thinking about skies.
I was also thinking about kites and global warming. So I expressed it all in a quilt: Red Sky. At the International Quilt Festival in Houston this year, people seemed to be really obsessed with piping and cording. "So they want piping," I thought. "Well, I'll give them piping." So I found the biggest piece of cording I could, and ran it across the quilt. It occurred to me at this time that all the kites had tails, so the quilt should have a tail, and this was the perfect time to |
give it one. So I extended the cording into a tail and
enhanced it with crystals, strings, and beads. I also made from scratch tiny black piping
which I applied against the deep red binding all around the quilt to better
contrast with the interior reds. Not knowing where to take it, I worked on this quilt off and on almost all of 2007, which was kind of frustrating, but I was afterwards glad I gave it the time for my ideas to surface. It made Red Sky more thoughtful and fun.--Salli McQuaid, 2008. |
Quilt History: Third Annual Chama Outdoor Quilt Festival,
Chama, NM, June 14, 2008.
The Woodlands Area Quilt Guild Biennial Festival, 2009.
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