Quilting Arts - USA (2021 - Spring)

FIELD

OF

DREAMS

RESULTS FROM THE ‘MIXED GREENS’ READER CHALLENGE

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oth gardeners and non-gardeners alike can appreciate the beauty of a spring garden or a fall

harvest of hand-picked gems destined for a delightful salad or stew. Plants nourish our bodies

and souls—we cannot live without them, in fact! We challenged readers to create a 5" x 7" quilt

featuring and celebrating their favorite fl owers or plants and invited them to get imaginative. These

quilts show myriad ways to look at and create homage to plants—aerial and abstract views; pieced

construction and appliquéd motifs; machine and hand sewing; with painted, plastic, and embroidered

embellishments. We are pleased to share this gallery of our readers’ work. We hope you enjoy the

following pages of original art.

“Mon Petit Chou”

SUSAN FLETCHER KING

HOUSTON, TEXAS

“I love cabbages, and it seems like

I’m always putting them in my art! I

painted the cabbage on fabric, fused

it to a commercial fabric background,

and stitched.”