Sold!

I'm taking a break from my Arizona travelogue to share my good news. The quilt pictured, "Mon Petit Chou", which had been juried into the SAQA show, "No Holds Barred" at the New England Quilt Museum in Lowell, MA, has sold. It sort of takes the sting out of it's not being accepted into Quilt National.

I got an email from a man saying that he saw it at the show and wanted to know if it was for sale. This was the day before I left on my trip. I emailed him back and told him the price and that I would be away from my computer for a month. I called him when I returned and, yes, he was interested. He said that it called to him from the across the room and was pleased to see the title since he is of French heritage.

He is mailing me a check this weekend and will pick up the quilt from the museum when the show is over in a couple of weeks.

I have had four quilts juried into shows in Lowell, MA over the last few years. The Brush Gallery, the Whistler House Museum of Art and the New England Museum. Three of those have sold. I guess I can say that Lowell has been good to me.

The quilt was my first whole cloth painted quilt. I had taken a picture of a beautiful cabbage at the Emily Dickinson exhibit at the Botanical Gardens in NY. I knew that it had to be a quilt. I pondered different ways of making it using my hand dyes and decided instead to try painting it onto white cloth. All of the veining is free motion satin stitching. Click on it to see a larger picture.