Twelve Quilts of Christmas 2016 – #7

 

There are some quilts that are so familiar to me that I forget that not everyone knows about them. Maybe you know this quilt or maybe this is the first time you are learning about it.  For me, it is a pleasure to look at this quilt every time I see it!   Bold and graphic it is also imbued with a soothing visual flow.

 

It is posited that Carrie, as she was known to her family, was likely influenced by the English Arts and Crafts Movement. She was so careful in her consideration of elements and their placement when she made this quilt, faithfully maintaining the rhythm of pattern without being a slave to it.  Each flower is just a bit different from the others and this is what gives the quilt visual interest and movement.  She carefully designed the quilt with the actual four poster bed in mind, planning where the stems and flowers would fall.  The two long, external stems would have fallen right on the top edge of the mattress.  Can’t you just envision it on the bed?  The main stems are stuffed to a chunky fullness imitating the strong stems of these hearty plants.  Finely quilted in a chevron pattern, she also quilted small flowers into the crooks of smaller flower stems and she quilted veins on the leaves.  Sigh!

 

A work to be proud of for sure.  And she was.   She inscribed her name on the back.

 

Thank you Carrie.