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Quilting: Sunflowers on the Plains
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Sunflowers on the Plains

Sunflowers on the Plains

Sunflowers on the Plains
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Category: Quilting

Type of item: Home Decor

For: Charity

Style: Outdoorsy, Traditional, Classic


Materials

cotton fabric

What was your inspiration?

My 2011 entry for the Alliance for American Quilts Contest. The theme this year is Alliance: People, Pattern, Passion. Received an Honrable Mention and was featured in the Readers Quilts in the April/May 2012 issue of Quilters Newsletter.

Sunflowers on the Plains
I live in North Dakota, one of the least populated and thought to be the least visited states in the Union. Located in the upper Midwest , it is a vast and sweeping landscape. From the fertile Red River Valley in the east, abundant with fields of wheat, corn and sunflowers to the vast plains and rolling hills leading to the Badlands in the west, there is a majesty in the patterns and people of North Dakota.
Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west. Theodore Roosevelt

 

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Alena De Candia on craftsy.com
Sep 12, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Beyond lovely!
Amy Munson on craftsy.com
Sep 13, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank you again, I really like how this quilt came together and really combined the traditional and art quilting.
Janey Crook on craftsy.com
Aug 27, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
This is really beautiful - those sun flowers - they are gorgeous.
Rice on craftsy.com
Aug 13, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
wow. clever vision. gotta try something similar myself.
Joey C on craftsy.com
Mar 28, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
What a stunning quilt!
CCG on craftsy.com
CCG
Mar 26, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Spectacular! I want to make sunflowers like that too!
Amy Munson on craftsy.com
Mar 27, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank you, check out my blog for more of my fiber collage style. http://in-the-fold.blogspot.com/search/label/Fiber%20Collage