"Ruby" 
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By Barbara Forrister(Austin, TX)
- Size: 29" W x 35" L
- Entry #400-018, Art Quilts, All Sizes Category
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Awards
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- Honorable Mention in Art Quilts, All Sizes Category
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Comments
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Ruby In The Emerald Forest is the first quilt in Part II of my Nature Series where the main focus is on negative space. Ruby consists of 50 pieces that are machine appliquéd and embroidered. The tree that she rests on is made of various upholstery fabrics. For the leaves, I hand-dyed some warm and natural batting and perle cotton, cut out each leaf and couched some yarn along the veins. The background is a hand-dyed cotton that I further embellished with Caran de Ache watersoluble pastel crayons and Shiva paintsticks to similate the water and shrubs in the foreground and middle ground. This piece is machine quilted with over 50 different colors of predominantly rayon thread with some metallic thread in the water. The parrot's claws were hand embroidered. The tree trunk was constructed separately from the body of the quilt and acts like an envelope that encases the right side of the quilt. Edges are satin stitched. With regards to this study, I think that depth and negative space act in tandem to give dimension.
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Techniques
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Hand Embroidery, Machine Appliqué, Machine Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Hand dyed batting used for the leaves
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Design Source
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Original Design
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