"Woven" - a Nebraska 150 celebration
"Woven" 24"x 24" A Nebraska 150 Wall Quilt Challenge entry Theme: "Inspired by Nebraska's Diversity" **warning very wordy ahead This year my state of Nebraska will commemorate its Sesquicentennial (150 years) of statehood. A challenge went out to make a 24" wall quit with the theme Inspired by Nebraska's Diversity. Our local modern quilt guild was already working on a project to tie in a charity fund raiser quilt and while I was participating in that I thought it would be fun to try my hand at a personal wall quilt. My thought process was to present a sort of history woven in fabric. I started improv piecing scraps, in the lightest fabrics I had, creating a grid of the farm land I grew up with. The textures of the warp and weft are created by tiny inserts of fabric, some less than 1/2" wide. Part of the aerial landscape is a bit of my journey. Born near the South Dakota/Nebraska border and slowly making my way sou...