My Little Skinny

Here is my little "skinny envelope" quilt. A/K/A IQA Rejection. I expected it would be declined and can embrace this rejection. For one thing I need to be able to take better photographs. For those I need a better camera and, almost more importantly, some decent lighting. I can;t afford to send every small quilt out to be well photographed - as much as I would like to ! For another thing this is hybrid. It IS a quilt ; it has a front and batting and backing.It is however, felted wool; machine quilted and beaded. It's an "in betweener" in the quilt world - even for the art quilt world. I made it because I liked it, because my husband said it looked like a starry night - and that was my mother's favorite song. I made it and completed it because it made me personally happy to look at. I will be happy to hang it on my wall.

You can't see the glitter, or the paint or the "bling" in the photos - and you can't see the fabulous textures that the wools allowed me to create in the quilting. Those are the elements that I especially like about this piece and that's why I am glad I made it .