Aluminum Loaf

Quilting "Ice Bridge" (the eighth in a series)

I've finished quilting "Ice Bridge," another of my mother's amazing photographs. If you've ever lived in an old house in a cold environment, you'll know how the ice can build up on the inside of a drafty window in the winter. My mom makes macro photographic art out of often unlikely sources, including this sunrise through a tiny bit of ice on a window in her home in Maine. I had it printed on fabric and quilted it. It now hangs (temporarily) on the front porch of my family home in Nova Scotia, surrounded by a 38-foot wall of drafty old glass—a fitting respite. 

The original image (which was used with permission) can be viewed on Elizabeth Root Blackmer's website: BrootPhoto.com 

Quilting "Glory" (the seventh in a series)

I finished the seventh quilt in the series I am doing of my mother's photography last week, but I haven't managed to sit down and put up a post until now. This one is called "Glory"—a macro image of a poppy.

This quilt took me longer than any of the others so far, especially so because it included seven hours of trapunto work before I was satisfied with the final result. Here it is displayed on the front porch.

Here's what the poppy fabric looked like when I started, atop the maroon backing fabric I chose as the color/colour for the reverse side of the quilt. The fabric print was a little blurry and not as rich as the original photograph by my mother, Elizabeth Root Blackmer, but still spectacular (especially so from a distance); and these are four of the dozen or so colors/colours of thread that I eventually used in the making of this quilt.