Bruce Gordon runs a non-profit company called Ecoflight, which uses flights from a prop plane to show people issues on the ground with our environment, from the air. Perspective is important for our point of view.
I like helping non-profit organizations by giving them my quilts, that might help them in some way. I have given a choir quilt to the Robert Sharon Chorale, and so far three of my quilts to Yemin Ord Youth Village in Israel. I have also taught others how to make blocks for a quilt which I would complete for The Jerome Golden Center For Behavioral Disorders and Scripps Research.
Jane Pargiter is Bruce’s assistant and took the picture I selected to use for a quilt from a flight over Arizona Dam of Lake Powell. That flight was taken as part of a student educational program they have.
The piecing method I used was learned from a class I took at the Daytona Beach AQS show in 2016 by David Taylor, though I varied his method a bit. I was attracted to his method, because it did not leave raw edges. The pieces were then machine appliquéd with a minute zig-zag stitch. He also taught us to appliqué the pieces onto a fabric background, which certainly helped with stabilizing the appliqué stitching. I started appliquéing from the top of the quilt, but then worked from the bottom up, when I got to the dark water, from which I appliquéd the water reflections on to it and the cliff. The airplane will be appliquéd at the end.
Fabric paint helped add dimension to the landscape, but thread painting and quilting will also add to that.
EQ7 helped me design the border, and also determine the size of the quilt. The design I came up with symbolizes a plane’s propellers. I love pieced block borders ability to draw attention to a quilt and tie it together.
This quilt is not finished yet, so it will be exciting to see how it comes out!
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