Shine on Me
Julie Reuben
42 x 29.5 inches
2023
ARTIST STATEMENT
This quilt took its time telling me what it wanted to be, resulting in several false starts, ripping out hours of stitching, lopping off the bottom half of the original quilt, and then having to expand it to create the right proportions of the different greens. I spontaneously decided to quilt freehand spirals rather than wavy lines as I had planned. Gradually the yellow arc felt like a band of sunshine, and then I knew that the background spirals should be different shades of floral tones. Once this image became fixed in my mind, creating my imaginary field of flowers brought me so much joy.
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
Commercial cotton fabric, perle 8 cotton thread, cotton batting.
Machine piecing, hand quilting.