This year I really left this to the last minute! February 28 was the deadline to submit entries to the annual textile art exhibit Cherry Blossoms: A Textile Translation which will be on display in April at the Silk Purse Arts Centre in West Vancouver.
Early in February I started playing with fonts to use to make a banner style quilt. I decided to use ‘Gill Sans Nova Ultra Bold’ for the word Cherry, and ‘Verdana Pro Black’ for the word Blossoms. I printed them at point size 600 and 400 respectively, and arranged them on my design wall. I cut the letters from a variety of pink fabrics.
On the weekend of February 25-26, I started auditioning green fabrics for the background. It wasn’t until February 27 that I finalized my fabric choices. I unpinned the letters from the design wall and fused them to the background. As you can see, I changed the orientation of the word Cherry.
The letters looked so pretty on my white table, I couldn’t resist posting a couple of images on Instagram before I fused them and started quilting.
Fortunately I had the entire day to spend on the quilting and finishing steps. I quilted vertical straight lines in green and horizontal in pink, turned the edges to the back, took my photos, wrote my artist statement and submitted my entry (whew!)
Here it is – ‘Signs of Spring’ – 16 x 36 inches.
And today, I was notified that it has been selected for the exhibit, which will be on display April 5 to 30 at the Silk Purse Arts Centre in West Vancouver. And there will be an online Opening on Thursday April 6 from 5 – 7 pm Pacific.
I love it! And I love how you worked under time pressure!