Soft Summer Gone 2016
262 cm h x 256 cm - approximately 100 inches by 100 inchesThe fabrics are silk that have been dyed with local plants from Manitoulin Island
The piece is quilted with hand embroidery. Silk and wool threads
Couching and stem stitch.
completely construcgted by hand stitch
and quilted with hand embroidery
Soft Summer Gone won two awards for Surface Design in Quilt National 17,
It showed at the Dairy Barn, Athens Ohio from May to September 2017.
It went on as part of that exhibtion to Riffe Gallery, Columbus Ohio in the spring of 2018.
In November 2020, it was acquired by the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln Nebaska for the museum's Quilt National collection.
