Short to tell: I finished prepping the Dallas Quilt Guild Submission and he's ready for delivery. A last today was my tear in time (see below). He'll be one of my submission for another show. I took a chance to post because I've been talking about it for some time dangling promises of photographs like carrots on a pole to a burrow. Either way I'm willing to suffer the consequences if so. Yet, I must remember that I enter these competitions more to show than to win a ribbon, but boy wouldn't that be nice. Meanwhile I'll be hounding the ether to get ready for a State Fair entry. It'll be what I am working on right now. I like my method so far and think it deserves to be seen on a broader level. Out of my comfort zone twice for this year. Thinking forward.
I must say though, the quilts never look the same in your hand as when they are pinned up. I'm floored.
Addendum: I totally forgot to tell you that the Medicine Quilt is completely hand quilted with embroidery floss and other embroidery threads. The base principle was to use variations of red. That inclination was born from trying to make a deadline for the Dallas Quilt Show's red challenge and I missed horribly, so it sits here till further notice. The stitches are straight like in Kantha-style quilting and then there are the embroidery stitches I created from looking at bird tracks and signs. Upon close examination you will find the Killdeer's and Pileated Woodpecker's tracks making designs all over the quilt. As they are in variations of red over variation of warm tones, you will not see it easily from a distance. I enjoy this quality of the quilting process as it makes you look at the quilt from varying angles and come to know the piece intimately. Maybe the technique is a variation on crazy quilting, I 'm not one well versed enough in quilting history to cite chapter and book.
Final thoughts: Building a person style and angle in quilting may be a direction I want to head. Agenda 2014-2016: The Medicine Wars to write and medicine quilts to explore.