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Baltimore CityStampTM 2007 - 20" x 32" finished size This quilt was my response to a guild challenge. Participants were given a fat quarter of the brightly colored grid fabric that I used in my center building. Upon examining the swatch I thought - hmmm - looks like a cell phone pad, or a grid, or a building! Yes a building! I will make a sky line. I decided to take famous buildings in downtown Baltimore and make a faux cityscape. As a graphic designer, I love type - so I was trying to figure a way to incorporate type. The main story on the news at the time was the first class mail rate increase from 39 cents to 41. That was it - a huge faux Baltimore Stamp. I really enjoyed making the piece. I decided to make the edges as inverted scallops mimicking a real stamp. I hole punched 1/8" holes ¼ inch around the whole scalloped border then crocheted a velour yarn to make the raw edge border. I would not recommend this technique! It was the cause of very sore palms after punching hundreds of tiny holes! Many people ask if this a real stamp. This art quilt will be made into a pattern and started the signature series of stamp quilts for Zebra Patterns. Watch the Zebra Patterns Catalog at this site. Click here to see all the stamps available.
. • 2008 Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival XIX, Hampton, VA . • 2008 Color My World Quilt Show, Friendship Circle Quilters, Columbia, MD |
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