It's Art....for Art's Sake ~

I'm a proud member of a group known as "Art Quilts Around The World"  Every two months we are given a theme and then the 20 of us in the group complete an art quilt in our own interpretation of that designated theme.  Well, the theme for this month's art quilt is "Snowflake."   


Art Quilts Around The World:  Snowflakes by Marty Mason








So, off I go in the middle of July sitting under a 100 degree heat wave thinking about snowflakes.  The thought did cool me off a bit.  

I've been wanting to make a paper quilt!  And this seemed the time to do it....in a small scale - just for grins. 




 
 
 
I started with a map recently acquired from a trip to Little Rock and added junk mail to the pile.  I added 'interest' by glueing on my theater ticket from the Little Rock trip and some bits of silk fabric. Fusible ironed to the back of each piece of junk allowed me to safely cut my "fabric"  into pieces....stitched together in a very random improv log cabin-ish style quilt block. 
 
 
 
 
 
Art Quilts Around The World:  Snowflakes by Marty Mason
 
 
I quilted and painted on and added paper snowflakes hanging with silk ribbon and more snowflakes made from fabric trims.  I've explained the process in more detail over here at
 
 

 
Art Quilts Around The World:  Snowflakes by Marty Mason
 
and here you have the big picture - snowflakes in July
 

Art Quilts Around The World:  Snowflakes by Marty Mason
 
 
 
 
 

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