Some more art quilts

 I realize that I haven't posted as much as I should about the work I'm doing. Here are some more qrt quilt images.

Beach Girl - This is the first one I made after my first portrait for the Social Justice Sewing Academy, back in 2021. I love the way the flowers just jump off her. 

And here is one I did of my SIL Pam when she was a child. This one was completed in 2024, but I worked on it on and off for about a year and a half. Life gets kinda busy. This one is nearly life-size (for a child of about two that is, not the size she is now. 😊)

My Uncle Lee

 Somehow I've become the repository for many family photos. This is both a blessing and a curse. I'm always concerned that they will be lost or damaged, and they take up some room.

The blessing is that they are a wonderful resource for art. This is a portrait quilt of my uncle Lee. I'm not sure, no one is around to tell me how old he was, but this looks like maybe his first school portrait. I just loved the expression. 

I added the frog because every young boy needs a frog.

Second Work for the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project

 Some time ago I did a volunteer project for a wonderful organization called the Social Justice Sewing Academy Remembrance Project. Volunteers are to create a portrait for someone list to violence. This is from their website:

The project remembers those lost to: authority violence (officer-involved shooting, police brutality, etc.), community violence (victims of gang violence, neighborhood or family, drive-by shooting, etc.), race (hate crimes, racially motivated, etc.), and gender and sexuality (violence against LGBTQ +, domestic violence, “missing, murdered Indigenous women,” etc.). 

This project was truly life changing for me. It set my art on a completely new path. After I submitted the first quilt I decided to do more portraits. When my father did in February, I realized that I wanted to make a second portrait for the project. Here it is.