Beach House
47 x 48 inches Cotton fabrics, ribbon and inked details, cotton batting Machine pieced, appliqued and quilted The water fabric was commercially produced, the sky fabric was hand dyed

This quilt was juried into the 1995 American Quilter’s Society annual show.

The source for the scene was a client’s photograph of their vacation home.

I used “thread sketching” extensively to add detail to the trees and other vegetation. The windsock is three-dimensional. I enjoyed finding shades of brown fabric to give the illusion of the support posts receding under the house.