All Good Gifts-Finished

 

Earlier in the week I shared about a new quilt in my liturgical series, featuring a collect calling us to be good stewards of God's creation.  Today I'll share the finished quilt and some more about the small details.

All Good Gifts, 2024, c. Shannon Conley 58"x 42"

It's called "All Good Gifts" in reference to the hymn, the refrain of which says "All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above, we thank the Lord, we thank the Lord, for all his love."  That's always been one of my favorite hymns and reflects our responsibility to protect and preserve our planet, our environment, and our ecosystem.

There's lots of fun doodling in the quilting throughout, quilting is one of my favorite parts of the process.  Here you can see the rose rocks (state rock of OK) in the top and right border and the scissortail flycatcher (state brird of OK) very "abstracted" in the quilting.

Here you can see a close of up fhte selenite crystals in the large O (our state crystal), with our state grass and butterfly on the left.

The bottom border features the oklahoma state wildflower, Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) and our state insect the European honey bee.  Funny story about the flowers,  they have graduated red-to-yellow petals so I hand painted the fabric and laid out the cut files so I'd have a lovely gradation of yellow/red along the petals.  Only after I finished all the flowers did I realize I did them backwards.  In real life they're red in the center and yellow on the tips.  Alas.  I guess we'll chalk it up to "artistic license"

I'm so pleased with how this turned out, it fits so well with the others in the series.