Crosses Galore

Crosses are so common in quilt-making. And I have made my fair share of them. At first as conventional bed quilts & then as departures onto walls.

The first departures were a seasonal set: first Fall Cross.             

  Then Summer Cross.

Spring Cross

Winter Cross

You can probably see now I am keeping some design elements constant. I think this was my first self-conscious series of quilts. Very fun to do.

       Summer Scraps grew out of much sewing one summer & scraps galore floating around.                                                                    

Here are old-time utility quilt fashioned a bit after the Amish style. I did these ones back in the 1970s. I see them now as sweet & naive.

In the same vein I made Byzantine Summer Fantasy which I gave to my sister Annie. It had some plaid silk in the patchwork & was embellished with sequins & beads.

 

Later I was inspired by something Joanna Steniskis made. I gathered her idea & some wonderful quotes from pre-school children & made this: The Tapestry of Children. This photo was taken when the piece was partially quilted up.

A quilt I gave my friend Judy MacIntosh. These have 4-patches making up 9-patches-- 9 blocks of them.

Dancing Under the African Sky. This was given to my cousin's daughter who was marrying a man from [then] Zaire. Not quite a cross, but the sense of 4 directions is strong.

These four are very much from the same period.

 

When my mother died in 1981 I made this 4-directions quilt about her & her 4 children going in their 4 directions. In this image it is hung in a window!

This quilt I made to raffle off as a fundraiser for a play-gound-building project. Quite dramatic on a bed.

These last two crosses were made at the beginning of my breaking-out period where I was trying out various new modalities.

 

That's it for now.