Award: Members' Choice: Honorable Mention

Artist: Maude Wallace Haeger - West chester, OH USA

Materials and Techniques: Cotton fabrics, gauze, thread. Piecing, embroidery, and thread painting.

Artist's Statement: Go Fish is a favorite childhood card game, first of all. I personally like to work bigger than 16 inches, so this is always a challenge to get all I have to say in such a little space. I have many "favorites" in the quilt making world. When I am frustrated I LOVE to create the paper pieced points of what I consider the "crown" of the New York Beauty quilts - it is very controlled and and I feel in control of the process which helps me out of frustration. I LOVE to do various types of embroidery and have since I was a child. I used to do it all by hand, and have the quilt to prove it, but now I use the sewing machine and Solvy. The fish designs were created for a much larger quilt that has a whole fish pond in a center garden pond, but for this piece, I was able to place fish in the center of the "sun" and then have one fish kind of jumping in just for fun and to create more depth to the piece. I also like to create depth through visual means in my pieces, thus you will also see pieces of net which add one more layer of depth to the piece. Many of my newest pieces have layer upon layer of filmy cloth and lots of embroidering which create an enriched surface that looks vaguely like pastel. I also love color which should be apparent from the piece.

Size: 16" x 16"

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