Design Concept

This is one of a series of quilts in which three dimensional, constructed tucks are incorporated into a patterned background.  The background fabric was hand painted with fiber reactive dye then cut into strips. The strips were reassembled, with a tuck in each seam allowance. A gradation of pure rainbow colors was used on the left sides of the tucks, and a value gradation of black to white was used on the left sides. A radiating, string-pieced border of intersecting color and value gradations surrounds the center panel.

Exhibitions:

• Marian College Heritage Festival, 2990, Fond du Lac,  Wi  (featured artist)
• Holiday Garden of Quilts, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL 1990
• American International Quilt Assoc. Show, 2990, Houston, TX  (first place)
• Lafayette Art Association, 1991 Juried Competition of two and three dimensional art, Lafayette, LA
• Quilt National ’91, Dairy Barn cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
  

Publications

• Quilters Newsletter Magazine, January 1991, p. 10
• The New Quilt #1, Taunton Press, 1991, Quilt National Catalog, p. 41