Pea Pod Playtime

I just finished a new quilt to be part of a MCFA show called Improvisations. The show will hang in the new Overture Center in Madison, WI. It was also selected to be on the cover of the show's postcard. My piece started out as a sketch in a very boring staff meeting with two white, male, "higher-ups" talking. They started out saying they came to our staff meeting because they wanted to hear our opinions and then proceeded to talk for 45 minutes! Unfortunately, I am not exaggerating. Of course, the good part is that I made this neat sketch and turned it into a quilt. Therefore, it was quite a productive meeting for me!


Initial sketch of Pea Pod Playtime

Lately, I have really enjoyed painting on cavas and using that as quilts, of course inspired by my class at Arrowmont. So the painting below is the background - acrylic on canvas.


Painted background of Pea Pod Playtime

Finally, I stitched with purple, blue, and green threads - three shades of each color to get the whisical pea pod shapes.



Pea Pod Playtime

My only complaint of the whole quilt is the dang binding. I hate bindings! I wanted the binding to turn over to the back so you didn't see it. It works OK, but the corners aren't sharp and I think it looked better before it was bound. I need to figure out a better way to do this. Any ideas?

The show will be hanging this summer. I think July to September at the Overture Center. Stop by if you're in Madison!