Monday, January 7, 2013

Map It Out Challenge

Here is my finished art quilt for the 'Quilting Arts' challenge.


Here is the write up that goes along with it:  

I took an old out of circulation map and copied it onto fabric, then cut it up and stitched it back together a few times.  Added some colourful 'roads of life' to map my journey through life and quilted it with lines marking the roads I didn’t take.


I have linked up at Leah Day's Free Motion Quilting blog.

14 comments:

Linda said...

Really interesting Jackie! Where do you come up with these unusual thoughts? Way to go, L

Mary Ann Tate said...

Really different and unique...cool:)

Mama Pea said...

Wow! I really love this! What a great job!

Happy Turtle said...

Very cool!
Carol

Westend Quilter said...

That is a terrific idea to print on fabric - maps - and roads not taken as the quilting! Definitely a winner.

Marjorie's Busy Corner said...

That is one of the neatest pieces I've seen....lot of work.

Margaret said...

I like it! Hope it's selected and published.

Sam said...

Cool metaphor.

Kit Lang said...

Great colours! Crossing my fingers that it is selected. :)

elle said...

Great piece!

Samantha said...

I loooooove maps. I love quilts. I love map quilts.

Great job!

sophie said...

The roads not taken quilting is great. It looks like you had a lot of fun with this challenge.

Quiltin Jenny said...

That is cool! What an awesome idea. Love the quilting.

JoAnne said...

What a great piece. Awesome!