"She's So Vain" an Art Quilt by Dottie Gantt - Original, Contemporary Art Quilts, Fiber Art, and Mixed Media Art

She's so vain!
Who's so vain?
She is!
Is She?

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Techniques: Piecing, free motion quilting, and free motion embroidery were done by machine. The whole background was pieced by machine, layered with the batting and backing, and then quilted. The body of each parrot was created with individual feathers cut out from more than 50 different fabrics and then fused to a muslin background. The eyes were glued on. Initial free-motion embroidery with more than 30 different colors of threads was completed, and then each parrot was cut-away from the muslin background and lightly glued to the quilted background. Additional free motion embroidery was done to each parrot to adhere and blend it into the background. Leaves were cut individually from the batik border fabric, raw-edge fused to the background, and then completed with free-motion embroidery.

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Awards and Recognition:
>> "She's So Vain" ©2001 is one of the featured art quilts appearing in the book "Focus on Batiks" written by Jan Bode Smiley, published by C&T Publishing - page 79

>> "Quilts: A World Of Beauty" a juried exhibit/competition sponsored by The International Quilt Association, Houston, Texas, October 31 - November 3, 2002

>> "World Quilt & Textile: On Tour - Summer 2002" - Juried exhibit/competition, Lansing, Michigan (August 9-11, 2002) and Greensboro, North Carolina (August 14-17, 2002)

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"She's So Vain" ©2001 Art Quilt by Studio Artist Dottie Gantt


Close Up Detail View	Techniques: Piecing, free motion quilting, and free motion embroidery were done by machine. The whole background was pieced by machine, layered with the batting and backing, and then quilted. The body of each parrot was created with individual feathers cut out from more than 50 different fabrics and then fused to a muslin background. The eyes were glued on. Initial free-motion embroidery with more than 30 different colors of threads was completed, and then each parrot was cut-away from the muslin background and lightly glued to the quilted background. Additional free motion embroidery was done to each parrot to adhere and blend it into the background. Leaves were cut individually from the batik border fabric, raw-edge fused to the background, and then completed with free-motion embroidery.