Mexican Pottery quilt

There was a call for entry for Star Quilts for a regional exhbition sponsored by The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri. The prospectus specifically encouraged art quilts. I realized that I had a few art quilts with stars in my inventory so I dug them out to photograph and enter.

This has always been one of my favorite pieces. It has never been exhibited or entered in a show. It started life as an Amish style stretched star quilt. Pretty ho hum but a perfect base for some experimenting. Lots of free motion machine quilting, some beading and then acrylic paint. It looks so much like the colorful Mexican pottery that I love.

I have no idea if any of the 3 quilts entered will make the show but it was fun to get back in the groove.

Close Up Detail

Who would have thought that ugly discharged Amish style wall quilt would end up looking like this! It was really one of those things that happens when art starts to morph into something it wants to be instead of what I want it to be.

A little paint here, more paint there and soon a fiddlehead fern quilt looks like a piece of vintage Mexican pottery. Of course, now I have to give it a new name! We used to spend winters in the Rio Grande Valley. I had used broken pottery through out my Texas garden. I have often wished for some of it for my garden here.

But back to the quilt.It has all the qualities of the primitive decorative painting on vintage pottery. I am truly in love with this now. maybe I’m not supposed to love my own work, but I hope you will forgive me this one time.Off the Wall Friday