Earth Reflections

1989

86" x 67"

Cotton cloth and beads, machine pieced, hand quilted, hand tied and embellished

When I started this I had no plan at all.  I had wanted to include oranges and yellows in a previous quilt but it had gotten too large.  Thus I began anew with these colors. As I sewed sections together it took on an unusual shape.  Beads appeared on the surface.  Embroidery emerged here and there.  As I worked on it my friends saw fire, earthquake, and a variety of other things.  To me now it represents the earth and what people do to it.  We all must think about the issues of preserving the earth.

Art Quilts by Barbara Moll