“Giverny Encore” ©2004
  42” l x 25” w

 The sunflowers are drawn onto water soluble Romeo and machine embroidered onto mosquito net.  Then the embroidered pieces are sewn (quilted) by machine onto the machine-pieced and partially quilted background.  That background is pieced from commercial, hand-dyed and painted fabric.

 A September visit to Giverny revealed the reason for so many images of sunflowers appearing in European art.  When I looked up and saw the beautiful sunflowers towering high above a metal “fence” in Monet’s garden  – I suddenly felt I had to create sunflowers in fabric – even though I knew they had been done so many times before.  When I came home, I kept feeling pressure to make the sunflowers, and I finally did create them.