Size:  62”x 62”

 

Techniques:

hand appliqué, hand embroidery,  machine pieced, hand & machine quilted

 

Materials:

100% cotton fabrics, 100% cotton & silk threads, commercial fabrics, Quilter’s Dream Cotton® batt

 

 

Invitational-Juried Exhibit,

“In the American Tradition I”

Houston, Texas /2002

Chicago, Illinois /2003

Sponsored by Coats & Clark

Organized by  International Quilt Festival

 

Fibers of Faith/Juror

Mixed Media Fiber Arts Show

(juror display) / August –October 2003

Corvallis, Oregon

 

Invitational Exhibit 2000,

“Flight of Time”

Benton County Historical Museum-Oregon

 

Honorable Mention 2001,

Traditional Amateur, Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival-Williamsburg, Virginia

 

Honorable Mention 2001,

Quilter’s Hall of Fame-Marion, Indiana

 

Honorable Mention Traditional Appliqué 2001, International Quilt Association, 

International Quilt Festival-Houston, Texas

 

IQA Journal, Winter 2005

Photo & interview

 

Q²  Program book for the 2002 International Quilt

Festival

Houston, Texas

Detail photos-- front cover & full page 16

 

 

 

 

 

This quilt was made to honor the love and support of a wonderful grandfather who never let me forget that art was in my genes.  He passed away a few days upon my return from the 2001 International Quilt Show in Houston, Texas.  I miss him dearly.

 

Russell G. Norton

Grandpa & the Treadle Quilt ©2000