Hardware Dragon

I did this piece for a challenge, called TNT, for a monthly group I attend of mixed media and textile artists. The challenge was to do a Tall, Narrow piece with Texture, dimensions 8 x 24" and everything else was up to the artist. I had been wanting to try doing reverse appliqué, and to work in black and white so I worked those things in. For texture I sewed pieces of hardware on to the quilt following the broken circles created by the fractured reverse appliquéd circles that make up the central portion of the quilt. It was interesting trying to figure out how to attach each piece. To add more texture I did some stamping with acrylic paint using the hardware pieces as stamps in the border. I hand quilted the border to finish it up.

Reverse applique	Finishing the edges
Cutting it up	and again
Putting it back together	Laying down the hardware
Free-motion machine quilting	Sewing on the hardware

Hardware Dragon
Commercial cotton, hardware,
acrylic paint
Machine pieced, free-motion
machine and hand quilted
14 x 26"
December 2007

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