100 Yellow Roses

1998

Left Panel            61" x 27"

Center Panel       61" x 43"

Right Panel         61" x 30"

Fiber-reactive dye on cotton, hand painted, machine pieced and quilted.

Dark lines were painted first on white cotton cloth.  The next stage was to add the yellow and gold tones.  Finally I painted the turquoise.   Between each of these stages I had to wash the cloth several times (by hand first), soak the cloth in a soda ash solution, and line dry the cloth without using a dryer.  After this process was repeated for each color, I cut all the roses apart.  Then I added turquoise strips and pieces. Finally I sewed all of this into three panels.  One observer said I was making my own pieces for a jigsaw puzzle.  One could also say I did this the hard way, but I loved the challenge.

At first I used photographs as models for the roses.  Then I started buying roses.   Each day the roses changed a bit and they could be painted from several directions.  Then I had to buy more roses.  My art required me to buy flowers.  How nice!

Art Quilts by Barbara Moll