Embrace Change, Dream

 This quilt was called the Orange quilt; it's new name is 

Embrace Change, Dream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This wall quilt is filled with color and interesting shapes.  

It has painted fabric, text, machine drawing.

Hand written text in the sun:

Jump for Joy, Create, Dream , Breathe, 

Embrace Change, Radiate Positivity, Inspire, 

Rest, Choose Kindness, Be Happy

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." 

                                                         Mahatma Gandhi

Here's a picture of the stitching that's inside the quilt 

now; it is so cool, I wanted you to see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you could add some words to make your life more 

full of passion, what would they be?

This art quilt is currently showing at the Lanesboro Arts Center.

Know Life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Know Life gets it's title from the Vincent Van Gogh quote, 

"The way to KNOW LIFE is to Love  many things." 

This quote resonates with me; I love the arts: music, dance, 

theatre, visual arts, film, spoken word, poetry, literature and 

writing of all sorts.  All the arts enrich our lives and fill us up.

We need the arts in times like these when some of our ways 

to connect with others are more limited. 

Here's how this art quilt came together.  I live in SE Minnesota 

with lots of bluff land surrounding me and the Mississippi River 

flows a few blocks from my house.  I appreciate this land so much 

for its raw beauty and how the light lands on it to create 

a new image every day and in every season.

Here's an image of the stitch drawing close up.  

The bit of blue stitching represents water.

This close up is the pop of color with yellows 

and greens and a variety of thread colors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here's the text with a white paint pen before I stitched 

over the text.  I decided that I'd stitch over the 

writing to pop the color more.

Signed and dated 2-2021 with gold pen.

Back of the quilt with a hanging device and card 

with details about the quilt.  It's interesting to see all the 

texture created with the machine drawing.

This art quilt is currently showing at the Lanesboro Arts Center in Lanesboro, Minnesota.

Fill Up

 

Fill Up is an art quilt using hand dyed fabrics, repurposed fabrics of velvet and embroidery stitching, text that is stitched over and text that is written with pigma pens and machine quilting that I call machine drawing.

Words that are stitch drawn:

Celebrate

Rise

You Got This

 

 

 

 

 

In the hand dyed fabric is text that is drawn reads: Fill up with all that feeds your being.  Making, creating, dancing, writing, cooking, caring for people, caring for the land...

Color, light, movement, joy overflowing.

What words would you use to create the life that you desire?  Go after it.  Share in the comments, if you like.

This art quilt is currently showing at the Lanesboro Arts Center in Lanesboro, Minnesota.