Marshall Point Light
I LOVE this quilt! I love everything about the way it turned out…. I began with a photo (taken by me) of the Marshall Point Lighthouse in Port Clyde, Maine. Maine’s glorious, rocky, peninsula- and bay-riddled coastline is the result of glaciers on the move during the last ice age. Port Clyde is at the tip of the peninsula just south of Camden…it takes a bit over an hour to get there from here.
I wanted to extend the photo beyond the four edges of the picture with scraps of cloth before I quilted it. When it was done, I decided I wanted to set it off against a background. A huge/wide piece of barnwood or driftwood would have been perfect, but I didn’t have any (and didn’t think I’d find any I could afford) that were large enough. So, out came my hand-dyed fabrics. This brown piece reminds me of wood and the forest floor, and is in fact a length of the same fabric I used in my Nativity quilt for the ground (see posts from June for lots more on that quilt). I wrapped stretcher bars with batting, then this cloth, then stitched the quilted central piece to the brown background.
Here’s a close up of the stitching…as usual, I got carried away and had a ball thread painting:
This piece is currently hanging in my show at Camden National Bank and, if it doesn’t sell from there, will move down to Ducktrap Bay Trading Company for sale. The piece is 14×19 inches overall size.
July 17th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Your work is amazing!
Bravo!
July 17th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
It’s beautiful! I can see why you love it.
July 18th, 2006 at 4:02 am
thanks for the pep talk..my hair still hurts(hee) and I spend two weeks a year in Maine(Bar Harbor-Boothbay area)perhaps I should use some of the thousands of pictures we already have to try this. Your so talented and thanks for all the tutorials. I’ve been amazed by your work and educated by your process too!
July 18th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Georgeous, Sarah. Makes me want to go to Port Clyde again!
July 18th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Lovely!
July 19th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Beautiful quilt – I’m working on a lighthouse now too. your quilting adds a great punch to the piece!