Artist Comment/Statement: Upon
learning that someone very special to me has a long-term illness,
I worked through my sorrow and roller coaster emotions by creating
this piece. As
I cut the fabrics and stitched them together, I kept hearing the
phrase of "Promises to keep, and miles
to go before ..."
Techniques: Pieced,
free-motion thread embroidery, and free-motion quilting by machine. Hand-stitched
glass beads and thread embellishment. The trees on the sky
background were created by free-motion embroidery using several
colors of rayon, metallic, and variegated cotton threads. The
moon with the trees is a separate piece that is "floating" on the
surface of the background, and was attached by hand.
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Materials: Fabrics
used were commercial cottons, raw silk, hand-dyed Skydyes cotton,
cotton lame, and Japanese cotton printed fabric. Rayon, cotton, metallic,
and monofilament/nylon threads were used for the free-motion machine
quilting and embroidery, as well as the machine piecing. The glass
beads were stitched by hand. Polyester batting was used for
the main piece, and fusible fleece was used for the floating moon.
