I was looking for a quilt to post tonight and came across this Ruth B. McDowell quilt from 2004. I was immediately struck by the pre-Covid gathering of teenagers on a street corner in Pacific Grove, California. This is such a typical teenage group which we would hopefully not see in our current situation. There is the chickie in the striped shirt who is getting most of the attention while her friend stands half off frame on the left, patiently waiting for.....?? The boy next to her has a soda, this was pre-cell phones. The guy on the far right has found something else to look at, but the other four boys are still in the game. This is all straight edge piecing and Ruth has a knack for capturing the body language of each figure. She cuts the stripes and plaids to accentuate the posture and eliminates faces to just show the attitude of the figures. I especially love the shoes!
2 comments:
This is an incredible quilt.
A brilliant quilt from an tremendously talented woman! Thank you Del.
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