This quilt was part of "My World in Black & White", the first exhibit sponsored by the Fiberarts Connection of Southern California. It was quite a good unjuried exhibit that showed in half a dozen venues around SCalifornia. I added a few of the quilts to the Collection, but not this one. However, it kept "haunting" me and some months later I contacted the maker to purchase it.
It is a monoprint done with dye dipped string, a technique that was taught in children's art classes years ago (and maybe even today), but one that I was not familiar with. The artist has enhanced the loops and arcs of the monoprint with black machine stitching that gives the appearance of sea fans or coral. Or perhaps the debris on a storm ravaged beach. The end pieces look amazingly like surf on sand. I thought the scribbly quilting was odd at the time, but in the years since it has become some quilters' signature quilting style.
"After the Storm" Roseanna Lynn Welter 2001 33"W x 45"L
Monoprinting. Machine piecing and quilting. Cotton fabric and thread.
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Following and filling in the loops and arcs of the monoprinting.
Surf on sand with scribble quilting.
The artist intended this to be a horizontal quilt, but I much prefer it as a vertical, so I added a muslin sleeve to one end. Which prevents me from hanging the quilt face-to-the-wall and enjoying the mystical image on the back.
You can see that Rosanna Lynn was undecided about a title and added "After the Storm" to the label - it was that name that was used on the entry for the "My World in Black & White" exhibit.
