Here is a Ruth B. McDowell quilt that will not be in the exhibit at Visions Art Museum. When we did the layout on paper there just wasn't enough wall space to show all 35 Ruth quilts in TCQC. So there are eight of her quilts that will stay at home! Still special quilts, just not enough room.
"Sap Buckets" Ruth B. McDowell 2011 54"W X 49"L
Commercial cotton fabrics, hand dyes, cotton batting and thread. Machine pieced and quilted.
This depicts the old traditional method of tapping maple trees for sap to make maple syrup. Lovely blue shadows against the snow and interesting prints to compose the tree bark.
It makes me feel cold to look at it!
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1 comment:
I have never seen this quilt and I love it. I grew up on a farm in upstate NY where we made maple syrup so this image is very familiar to me. We had a team of horses that carried an oak container on runners. The sap was dumped in that and taken to the sugar house. Eventually, the trees were tapped with vinyl tubing which took the sap directly to the sugar house - not nearly as lovely a site!
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