Jesus' feet

I have been working a lot lately but am still finding the time here and there to sew an art quilt.  This one is a portrayal of Jesus' feet on the cross.  There is a bit of blood dripping down to the ground where a vine with heart-shaped leaves is growing.  A bit of symbolism there.

UPDATE: I don't know when I started this post.  Several years ago, never finished it, to busy while working to "blog" so now I am retired I will share some more stuff.

This is one of my favorite art quilts I have made. Probably because of the subject matter.  It would seem to be a gruesome item to put on a quilt but it tells such a story.  Gods Son on the cross who died for our sins.  I made the quilt by request from the music director for Easter one year.  They wanted to have people portray different parts of the Easter story with their own art.  I chose Jesus feet on the cross as it seemed like it would be easier for me and I had an instant vision of how I wanted to do it so that kind of says it was Spirit lead.  As I generally do not instantly know what I want to do with a quilt.  The only problem is finding the perfect place to hang it in our new house.  It has to be the right place.

The music director at church asked me to do a 5 minute project and create a curtain to cover the back side of the alter table to cover up the stuff that gets tossed back there.  I just can't do a 5 minute project.  So I made a banner.  Love God and Love people.  I call it "preaching to the choir" since they are the only ones who will see it.  I intentionally made the people all different shapes and sizes.  There is one who stands out in a crowd, one who fades away in the corner, the short and tall, round and skinny.  We are all in need of love.  Jesus said that the greatest commandment was to love God and the second like it involved loving others.  Pretty simple but powerful message.

Shawn's quilt top is finished! yay!

 I started this quilt, oh... hmmm... thinking *** oh yeah, this past summer.  With the goal of finishing it, yes even having it quilted and bound and on the bed, before the summer was out.  And then what happened?  Life.  I got a full time job and I had this quilting job on the side for the Alabama fan so it got a little delayed.  

I like how it turned out.  The small checkered border (which is something I like to add to all my stuff) is very subtle as it is two mediums of a similar tone so they blend at a distance to look like one strip of fabric but they are not.

To give you a perspective on the size of this quilt, I am laying on it in the picture below.  I hadn't measured the quilt but I think that showing me on it is more fun than giving you a measurement.  It is for a twin extra long but the bedframe is a cheap ugly metal one so I made it long enough to go to the floor.

Now I need to get this other project off of my long arm machine so I can quilt it.  But the exciting part is that until that is done I get to start Brian's rooms quilt which are some totally different colors that are brights.  Also the pattern is a new one for me and a little more challenging than this which is a simple log cabin.  Classic of course but way easy.  Next installment will be a showing of Brian's colors.

If I was a good blogger, which I am not, I would have posted some more updates of this latest quilt along the way.  But I didn't so here it is.  The "Roll Tide" quilt which is a depiction of the Bryant-Denny stadium the way it used to look judging from the million photos that I have perused in the process of doing this project.  I think it turned pretty good.  I still would not hang it on my wall.  War Eagle!

Alabama Stadium Quilt In Progress

Full view

This is a close up view of the front of the stadium.  It doesn't look like much yet but it is coming together nicely.  The thread painting that will hold it all together will add a lot to define and highlight.    There is still much to be done.  This is just the beginning.  It is fun despite it being from ugh that other Alabama school.  War Eagle!

snakeskin for Shawn

This is the lopsided log cabin for Shawn with the flying gees at the ends but... there is still a checkerboard border to be added and a skinny inner border and the darker outer border.  Progress is slow as there isn't much time to spare.  

And.... I am making another quilt for sale for an Alabama fan.  (yes indeed, Go Tigers and War Eagle and all that!) Progress to be shown as progress is made.  I made the pattern and have selected some fabrics from the stash but the hunt is on for some other needed fabric to finish it out.

Something old to share

This is a quilt I made for a card that didn't get turned into a card...yet.  I really like it and thought since I am not done with the current quilt under way, I would share this one.  I call it "With Love from Florida"