Welcome to everyone who is clicking through from the fabulous
Bloggers Quilt Festival hosted by Amy over at
Amy's Creative Side. If you haven't yet been over there, click through to check it out. Its always a wonderful event.
I hope if you like what you see you'll come back again sometime. You can see some of my finished quilts in the top tab pages, or just browse through the archives to get a sense of what kind of things I make.
Apologies to my blog regulars who have seen this quilt before but this year I'm entering my quilt Winter in Lincoln County #1: The Orchard. It's inspired by a picture of my parent's fruit orchard in the mountains of southern New Mexico (I'm counting the days until I can visit again) which was taken after a winter snowstorm. Winter is my favorite time of year, and I love the crystalline cold feeling on a fresh new morning.
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| Winter in Lincoln County #1: The Orchard, c. 2013 Shannon Conley |
The sky is a piece of fabric I painted, cut up, and tiled after being super-inspired in a
Gloria Loughman class. The trees are made with all different techniques. Some are commercial fabric, some are painted fabric, and some are thread painted on dissolvable stabilizer. All are accented with free motion quilting. My favorite parts are the shadows which I made by cutting stencils and daubing with many different colors of Shiva Paintsticks.
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| Winter in Lincoln County #1: The Orchard, detail |
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| Winter in Lincoln County #1: The Orchard, detail |
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| Winter in Lincoln County #1: The Orchard, detail |
Thanks again for clicking through, and many thanks to Amy for such a fantastic job organizing the Blogger's Quilt Festival! For more info on this quilt, you can click the "orchard" tag in my right sidebar.
That's one amazing quilt:))
ReplyDeleteThis one is my fav. I like how you combined a landscape with hints of traditional piecing. What a masterpiece.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!
ReplyDeleteIn the couple of years that I've been reading you, this is my all-time favourite. It takes my breath away every time I see it. The quilting, the detail, the concept... all of it. I keep asking people at my guilds whether or not they've seen it. Yup. But then I've told you that... :-)
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous quilt. I love every detail.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning! The detail in this is incredible!
ReplyDeletethis is gorgeous! love the feel you've achieved with your colours and techniques
ReplyDeletewow! a real work of art!
ReplyDeleteI'm voting for you for sure for art quilt. I am one of your groupies!
ReplyDeleteLove how the quilting created the snow here, great effect :o)
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how the shadows and different techniques give this a 3-dimensional effect. And I love the sky. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI think I gasped out loud when I saw this. STUNNING.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is amazing! Very detailed with a tremendous amount of lovely texture.
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ReplyDeleteJust stunning - so much thought and love has so obviously gone into this piece.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad you showed this again for the Festival. It's a quilt worth seeing many times. My husband absolutely loves it, too!
ReplyDeleteIncredible! This one is just amazing
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteI'm in awe of this quilt. I've seen it elsewhere (flickr? or pinterest?) but it's so lovely to see the details on it. Fantastic job! It really captures winter too.
ReplyDeleteStunning! I can't take my eyes off it, LOL from a fellow art quilter!
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLove this one! I can feel the crisp crackle of the cold!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing work of art! I really love it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! The shadows of the trees are perfect - nicely done.
ReplyDeleteWow! The different techniques you have worked so well together. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful and o detailed. I love the texture, that Akers it look like a real landscape. Congratulations on the nomination :)
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is gorgeous and spectacular! Very occasionally I come across a quilt I wish I'd designed myself - and this is very definitely one of them. I share your love of snow and winter and these come across wonderfully in all the details you've included!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is a beautiful piece of art! Love it!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work, really conveys a brisk winter day.
ReplyDeleteHave a great day.
Always, Queenie
I love the detail on this! So realistic!
ReplyDeleteI adore this quilt! Amazing!
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