framed quilt, yellow tones – “Sunset”

Description

Living in New England in my rural setting I have the pleasure of looking through the trees to the mountains beyond.  More often than not I witness a blazing sunset where the sky is over-taken with red, orange and yellow amplifying the shapes of trees and casting very long shadows.  The quilt is an abstracted interpretation of that view.

The cloth for this quilt was colored with textile paint, and ink pencil on white or hand-dyed cotton cloth.  With its edges carefully turned inward, cut-outs were reverse appliquéd by hand onto the painted ground.  The final square was layered with batting and a backing and sewn through to create quilted patterning then is embellished with embroidery.  It comes in a maple hardwood frame.