Autumn is late in coming this year!
Our garden is still full of marigolds!
They are the inspiration for this "paper" quilt called "AUTUMN". In the background is a traditional English poem :
MarigoldWhen the marigold no longer blooms,
When summer sun has turned to gloom,
See the forecast winter snow,
See the evergreen that lonely grows.
Mood glows to the fireplace,
Neglect the garden, see the ground harden
At a ghostly pace.
The golden summer sun is silver now,
The fruit has fallen from the bough,
The season moves to chestnut time,
Toffee apples, treakle, and mulled wine.
Quilts and furs and woolens gay,
You wrap around you, but the cold confounds you
On an autumn day.
Stout and strong the walls of home and hearth,
The curtains drawn against the draft,
The grain is reaped, the blade is mown,
Nights go in to call the harvest home.
The quiet of a heart at rest,
In peaced abounded, by love surrounded,
Here the home is blessed
This is an experimental piece for the upcoming art show....I am doing a" paper quilt "for each season...they are about 27x 35. This one has acrylic paint and tissue paper collaged on the painted and machine quilted background.
1 comment:
Beautiful! What a wonderfully neat technique!
blessings,
kari & kijsa
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