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QUILTS BY JUDY ROSS, Pt. Roberts, WA
Wunderkammer Quilts
Wunderkammer means "room of wonders," and these quilts are about collections of images; images I have collected in a single quilt.
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"Animals of Point Roberts, No. 1," 2012. 16"x24".**
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Photos on this page are recently completed work (usually within the last few months, depending upon how fast i'm working).
Small, new pieces? See the 'Quilted Basket' page.
Want to read my blog? It's not (at least so far) much about quilting, but there are other things in life than quilting, of course. You can find it at getthewholepicture.blogspot.com
Also, I'm one of several writers at a quilting blog (begun in 2010) called quiltersoutofbounds.blogspot.com
- Click on any of the above to see more quilts...
"In the Forest, in the Fall," 2012. 48"x60". Based upon a series of photographs, especially of lichen and mushrooms in our forest. But also, winter wrens and a racoon.
IMPROVISATIONAL QUILTS:
Lap Quilts that May be Art Quilts
The most recent of a series of similarly-sized and constructed quilts with the intention of combining the practicality of a usable lap-sized quilt with at least some of the qualities of an art quilt.
"What About the Parrot?", 2011. 44"x58".
"Planting the Spring Garden," 2011. Linen, cotton, hand-embroidery, hand-quilting.
"Nara," 2011. Linen, silk, vintage kimono pieces, hand-embroidery, hand-quilted. 48"x64".
"Aerial Views," 2011. Linen, cotton, hand-dyes, hand-embroidery, hand-quilting. 46"x62"
"Windows on the World," 2011. Linen and cotton, hand-embroidery and hand-quilting. 44"x62"
"To The Nines," 2011 Cottons and linen, many different kinds of 9-patches. 46"x64".
"Costa Rica," 2011, 44"x60". Linen, hand-embroidered, hand-quilted.
"Jerusalem," 2011, linen and cotton, hand-embroidered, hand-quilted. 45"X60". **
"Oaxaca," 2011, 44"x62". Linen, cotton, stamped and embroidered; hand-quilted.
'Koln," 2010, 42"x60". Linen with hand perle cotton hand embroidery; hand-quilted.
"Copenhagen," 41"x55", 2010. Linen, hand-embroidery, hand-quilted.**
"Mombasa," 48"x72", 2010.
Linen center, cotton borders, hand-embroidered and hand-quilted. (In private collection.)
"Walkabout," 45"x65", 2010.
Linen center, cotton borders, hand-embroidered and hand-quilted.**
Rajahstan (45"x60"), 2010 **
Provence (45"x60"), 2010
Fields of Gold (45"x60"), 2010
Sunny Day (45"x60"), 2009
Vein of Iron (45"x60"), 2009
'Feeling Blue,' lap quilt, 45"x60", 2009.
The Barham Variations
2009, 31" x 65"
(private collection)
"Justice For All", ca. 65"x40".
August 09. **
Now we have the Congress (below) and the Judiciary (above). We are lacking only the Executive. But it remains to be seen what Obama is to us, indeed what the Presidency itself now is to us. Maybe 'Feeling Blue' (above) is the quilt about the Executive Branch
"Justice for All' was given an Honorable Mention at the Tenth Annual Fibre Arts Festival in Gibsons Landing, B.C. in August, '09.
"Your U.S. Congress at Work," (61"x45") 2009.**
"Justice and Peace," (45"x32") 2009. (In private collection.)
Star Dancers, 19"x27", 2007.
(In private collection.)
Wunderkammer #1, 27"x32", 2007.**
They Have No Lawns, 25"x35", 2007.
(In private collection.)
Suzanne, 35x41", 2007.
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