Some of you may recall that Erica, Monica, Stephanie and I participated in a challenge to make a quilt drawing inspiration from the Quilts of Gees Bend. As Stephanie does not have a blog, she has let me display her Gum Leaves on Gees Bend quilt here:
Inspired by the housetop quilts (see, for example, Martha Jane Pettway and Sue Willie Seltzer), Stephanie used a quilt-as-you-go method with hand dyed blue fabrics representing denims and black representing wool. She has hand sashikoed (spelling?) gum leaves in a grey green. The backing fabric also features aqua blue gum leaves and gum nuts.
Me? I’m still waiting for my Firebrand quilt to tell me whether it needs to be squared up or whether I should leave the edges wonky…
Hedgehog says
Tell Stephanie it’s great!!