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"I Was Going To Be A Coat" Series

Several years ago I decided to make a coat out of small bits and pieces of fabrics, ribbons, buttons, beads and whatever else I could find. Six years later, I was cleaning out the cupboard to find more storage room for fabric and decided that the coat would never get made. So I gave myself permission to cut it up and make 4 small art quilts from it. Voila! Wearable art was transformed into art quilts. Quilt #4 was given to a friend before I could take a picture of it.
Hearts on my sleeve art quilt

Hearts On My Sleeve

Hearts On My Sleeve was made from the sleeve of the coat. I found the technique for making the hearts in a couture sewing book and liked the look so I made them on the sleeve of the coat. When it morphed into an art quilt, I added some french knots in embroidery and a heart bead on one heart. A pair of earrings gave me the centers for the other two hearts. 15 3/4" by 6". $30.00
Flying geese art quilt

Flying Geese

The geese are made from purple dupioni silk triangles overlaid with gold lamé triangles and anchored with buttons and beads. This piece ran diagonally across the right front of the coat. 19 1/4" x 6 3/4". $30.00
Rogers' Chocolates art quilt

Mmmm, Mmmm, I Love Rogers'

Many years ago I bought a tin of Rogers' Chocolates because they were in a very pretty pansy tin (really, that was my only reason). The chocolates are long gone, the tin is used for storage in my sewing room but I couldn't bear not to do something with the ribbon. So it became part of the coat, then part of an art quilt, which now resides at its new home in the Rogers' Chocolates store in Victoria, B.C. 12" x 20 1/2".
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