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Three's the Charm

I have to blame the summer issue of Art Quilting Studio for inspiring me to try making a trio of art quilts as my first small series. The cover art shows a machine and hand embroidered garden art quilt that made me remember some vintage sheer organza samples I had. I sandwiched those with recycled white linen, cotton batting and some art cloth as backing to make three mini quilt foundations.

Rather than follow the instructions from the magazine, I decided to slow-stitch these three pieces and see what came out of that.

I did the blue flower from a memory of seeing a similar slow-stitched bloom on Etsy. The cream roses nestled in the V of a tree trunk are another interpretation of that moment in the mountains when I chose roses and joy instead of despair and bitterness (aka one of the best decisions of my life.) The third piece has no meaning; I just stitched the flowery patterns I saw in the sheer layer.

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