212 Canyon Road: Finished

 Earlier in the week I shared the process for building another one of my topography inspired quilts.  Today I wanted to come back and share the finished work.  I talked about painting and cutting all the individual layers.  I mounted them onto a quilted and painted base quilt just like I did ten years ago when working on another quilt like this.

Here's the finished quilt.  It's called 212 Canyon Road,  that was the house I grew up in and the map covers the neighborhood and its surroundings.    The elevations range from 6280-7560 ft.

It had a LOT of layers, on the top section there are 18.  It sticks out from the wall a full 5 inches and even with my ingenious wooden buttons (I talked about in the prior post) the top layers were a bit saggy.  I wound up putting wire (from a hangar) inside the top layers to help prevent sagging.  It's been hanging on my wall now for several months (this was another fall 2025 finish) and is holding up great!

Here when it's sitting on my work table you can see how much thicker the top section is compared to the middle and bottom.  The mountain goes up fairly steeply in that area.

212 Canyon Road, c. 2025 Shannon Conley, 41x29x5

The artist statement reads: This is part of a series made using USGS maps, this piece depicts the topography of the neighborhood where I grew up. Unfortunately, when my parents sold the house 25 years ago, the person that bought it never lived there and it has sat abandoned since then.

I'm really pleased with how it came out, the little wooden buttons separating the layers really worked out better than the last way I did the layers.  I really like the outcome of these quilts but they are tedious to make, so we'll see how long it is before I design another one.