Tree
Since I finished "Murder in the Garden" way before the deadline, I thought I would work on a second piece to enter at Quilt National. The piece of hand dyed fabric was talking to me and we decided it needed a lone tree. I made a template, and then painted the tree on using Posca paint markers. Trying out various threads for the quilting. The quilting is meant to emulate clouds and mountains far off in the distant. The mountains are semi visible in this photo. After applying a facing, the quilt was ready to be photographed at Atelier AFA . I finished the hand quilting, and the photography but I didn't know what I should name the quilt. Without a name I didn't have an artist statement, and I wasn't able to name the photos to enter. I thought, and thought about it but nothing was speaking to me. Eventually the quilt did not get entered. The day after the deadline I discovered Bob Dylan's poem, "And death shall have not dominion." I felt like this p