Tomorrow Is Another Day / Mercy

Tomorrow Is Another Day  linen damask, indigo dye, natural plant dye, cotton threads, 48 x 82 inches or122 x 208 cm, 2024

An applique of a dark and stormy sky has a title that calmly and hopefully references the future:  Tomorrow Is Another Day.

Mercy  plant dyed damask table linen, cotton thread, 48 x 82 inches or 122 x 208 cm, 2024

The reverse side of the piece is made from three smaller pieces of different-hued damask and is entitled Mercy.

The three pieces of the second side receive the stitches from the first side as if a single original and courageous drawing.

Quilts have two sides and teach us that everything is connected.  This piece encourages kindness, forgiveness, courage and hope in dark times.  

When you are worried, remember to look at the sky.  The answers are there.

Have compassion.  Tomorrow is Another Day.

This quilt had it's premier showing in Judy Martin's solo exhibition at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham England August 2024.  The title of her show is Softer and Dreamier. Softer and Dreamier. 

Currently on display in room 309 until November 2025 in the Gladstone House Hotel in Toronto, Ontario as part of an award from Craft Ontario.  Read more here.

moon cloth _ female figurine

 Moon Cloth     2016     Hand stitched hanging sculpture.
dimensions variable (135 cm h x 50 cm w x 16 cm d)
wool, indigo dye, cotton thread, silk thread, hand stitching   

Worked from the back of the cloth, strips cut from the bottom that were then couched in angles and circles.  The fabric became energized with hand work.

Inspired by the rotation of the moon, ancient female figurines from pre-history and the immensity of our vulnerable inner selves.

exhibition

Hard Twist 11  Spin  Augut 26 2016 - January 8, 2017, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto Ontario Canada.

Perivale Gallery Manitoulin Island for the 2017 season

three moons

Three Moons  15" wide, 40" long, 2015,  silk charmeuse, indigo dye,  hand stitch resist and hand stitch with silk thread.(detail above)

Three Moons, 40" x 15", 2015   silk, indigo, stitch resist

Three Moons detail, 2015

silver water

Silver Water   2012    indigo on rayon and on linen with shibori markings, tucked seam, hand quilted with embroidery floss   14" x 54"   detail shown above

Silver Water 2012, Judith e Martin

Silver Water side b  2012  Judith e Maritn

Silver Water 2012  side b  procion dyed cotton and rayon, hand quilted with embroidery floss  14" x 54|"  (detail above)

Silver Water is in private collection  

Lake

Lake  Indigo and hand stitch on silk, 2014  Judith e Martin

168 cm h x 133 cm w   (66" h x 52" w)

Materials: re-purposed linen damask, hemp silk blend fabric, indigo dye, cotton embroidery and quilting threads  (bamboo batt)

Techniques:  paste resist, hand embroidery, hand quilting.   (Entirely hand stitched)

the tuck that seams the two pieces of indigo dyed cloth together creates a horizon line.

2015  Perivale Gallery Spring Bay Manitoulin Island.  May 17- September 15 2015
2015  Quilts=Art=Quilts  Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center  Oct 31 2015 - Jan 3 2016
2016  World of Threads Festival, Oakville Ontario  Oct 29  - November 27 2016