Flowers for Emily

As mentioned below, a few days before my friend, Emily, passed away, I made her a pillow. Before that, I had been having a bit of a creative 'dry spell' and hadn't really made anything in a month or so. However, after I made and brought Emily the pillow, I felt inspired. After visiting with her in the hospital, I had a rare afternoon and evening to myself, and I came home and started working on an art quilt (i.e., wallhanging). I worked on it during the week, and I finished it up a little over a week later, after Emily's death.

It's probably around 20" x 30", and it includes fused fabric, and handsewn fibers, Swarovski crystals and Angelina fiber as accents. It's free motion quilted, and there's some scallop stitching around the bouquet of flowers. The border, which you can't really see in this picture, is a gorgeous shade of purple with small black script on it. The colors are really vibrant and lovely, and I think Emily would have approved. Our local library is going to have an art show in March and is looking for submissions at the end of February. I think that I am going to submit this. It is, of course, called Flowers for Emily.

Thanks for the inspiration, Em!