Changing Gears Quilt Show and Sale
 
Design, Small (400-025)
Design, Small (400-025): 'Tuscany Villa' by Sara Sharp
"Tuscany Villa" 
By Sara Sharp
  • Size: 26" W x 20" L
  • Entry #400-025, Art Quilt, Large and Small Category
Awards
  • Overall Award for Design, Small
  • First Place in Art Quilt, Large and Small Category
Comments
The quilt depicts a favorite scene I saw on a trip to Italy. I based the work on photographs I had taken of the patchwork effect of fields in the Tuscan countryside. The foreground portrays one of the vast fields of sunflowers in bloom. I used commercial fabrics embellished with thread painting to show both the deep afternoon shadows and the low rays of sunlight accenting the roof of the villa.
Techniques
Machine Piecing, Machine Appliqué, Machine Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Embellishment (free motion quilting, thread painting)
Design Source
Original Design

Austin Area Quilt Guild