After making "The Angels and Saints Are Watching Us," I decided to make another art quilt with nuns as the subject. I remembered that the nuns who taught at my school all lived together in the parish convent and that they had only one car, a very big station wagon. There was one sister who could drive and she was in charge of going out to get the groceries. She was a notoriously bad driver, but that would not stop her from driving around with a carload of sisters out for a shopping adventure. If you look at the nuns in the car, the driver is determined, the far passenger is terrified and the sister in the middle must be praying!
There were quite a few technical problems in planning this quilt. Since the work I do is three dimensional on a flat surface (bas relief), it was a real challenge in perspective to make the front end of the car emerge beyond the sculpted nuns inside the car without adding bulk to the quilt itself. The quilt is stitched by machine and by hand, and I sculpted each of the nuns' faces by hand. This quilt has been exhibited in several shows in New England and in Prince Edward Island. It is definitely my favorite in this series. The name of the piece is "Accidental Sisters."
The next piece in the series was inspired by the farm-themed fabric that dominates the quilt. Of course, not all nuns teach school. Some even raise chickens on a farm. This next piece shows a nun feeding the chickens in the barnyard. It is hand and machine sewn and embellished with a hand-sculpted face and lots of glass beads. Its title is "Feeding Time."
There were quite a few technical problems in planning this quilt. Since the work I do is three dimensional on a flat surface (bas relief), it was a real challenge in perspective to make the front end of the car emerge beyond the sculpted nuns inside the car without adding bulk to the quilt itself. The quilt is stitched by machine and by hand, and I sculpted each of the nuns' faces by hand. This quilt has been exhibited in several shows in New England and in Prince Edward Island. It is definitely my favorite in this series. The name of the piece is "Accidental Sisters."
The next piece in the series was inspired by the farm-themed fabric that dominates the quilt. Of course, not all nuns teach school. Some even raise chickens on a farm. This next piece shows a nun feeding the chickens in the barnyard. It is hand and machine sewn and embellished with a hand-sculpted face and lots of glass beads. Its title is "Feeding Time."
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