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Red Sky ... Cosmic Illusion #16
Red Sky: textiles, batiks, threads, batting, cording, crystals, beads, button, 72"x 40", 2007.
Original "kite" embroidery. Illustrates traditional Japanese kite block. A resident machine embroidery. Large, contemporary sun block.
A large quilt formed mostly from traditional blocks, but with fun, conceptual overtures. An original embroidered image, a contemporary feature of the artwork. Shimmering, halographic threads add sparkle to the entire quilt. The central embroidered image in this block is customized with ribbon woven through thread "ladders" to represent the kite string. Japan is "the land of the rising sun." This block is formed from myriad pieces and again enhanced with embroidery. Since all the kites had tails, I decided to give the quilt a tail. Shows red casings and custom label.
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 |
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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: Shown in Third Annual Chama Outdoor Quilt Festival,
Chama, NM, June 14, 2008. |
