City Quilts

 The theme for FiberWorks annual show at the library this year is Cityscapes. I wasn't thrilled with the idea at first because I had made so many city quilts over the years and did not want to make another.  Even though they were very successful; some sold and some were juried into shows. I will show some of them here.

HOUSTON REFLECTIONS

This is the quilt that started them all. I had taken photos of buildings in Houston, TX while there for the big International Quilt Festival. The mirrored surfaces gave a distorted view of their neighboring buildings. I printed some of the photos on fabric and did wonky piecing to replicate the feeling.

It was juried into the show the following year where it won a second place in its category.  

I went on to make several of the "City" quilts, minus the photos, using my hand dyed fabrics. Emerald City was purchased by Yale New Haven Hospital for one of their doctor's waiting rooms.

Sunrise City was purchaed  at a library show as part of a Fiber Revolution show.

City Lights

This was a small quilt made for a FiberWorks show with a theme of Gray Plus One.

It won a Best of Show in a Woman's Club competition.

And there are more, but I can't find all the pictures. But maybe you can see why I didn't want to do another.  

Several years ago I took a trip with my sister to Greece. It was a wonderful adventure and I was smitten with the island city of Santorini with its white washed buldings and brilliant blue roofs. I knew I wanted to capture the feeling in a quilt, but never got around to it. This was the perfect opportunity. 

It is all fused appplique and was a challenge to make. I am usually a piecer. I haven't decided how to quilt it. I was thinking of doing corduroy quilting, which is rows of straight line quilting all over the quilt a quarter inch apart. Everyone said NO!. so now I have to figure out what to do.

All suggestions are welcome.

I'm linking up with Off the Wall Friday.