Harbinger’s Hope

“Harbinger’s Hope”
53" x 62" (2007).
Original design.
Batiks, hand-dyed cottons, fusible web, nonfusible interfacing. Cotton and rayon threads, perle cotton.

FOR SALE: $4,500L

I created this quilt in spring 2007 after a prolonged battle with Duke Power,
who threatened to cut the 70-year-old sugar maples in our front yard back to the trunk to provide clearance for power lines. The quilt celebrates the renewal of spring and some of the magical things that go on in trees’ branches.

Fabric pieces were cut, fused to the background and thread painted. Some
of the leaves, the seed pods, and the leaves are three-dimensional. The background is heavily quilted in a square spiral pattern and with leaf designs.

“Harbinger’s Hope” is the featured quilt in “The Last Stitch” in the February/March 2009 issue of Quilt magazone.

It was juried into the 2008 International Quilt Festival in Houston, and the 2008 Denver National Quilt Festival. It has won the following awards:

2008 Charlotte Quilters Guild Show – Best of Show – Large Quilt; Best Use of Color; and first place in the “Professional Art Quilt” category.

2007 Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza XIV – Honorable mention in the "Innovative" category.

2007 Asheville Quilt Show – Third place in the "Other Techniques" category

2007 Lake Norman Quilters’ Show –
Best of Show; Best Amateur Machine Quilting; and first place in the “Art/Pictoral ” category.