Hay Bale series
In Mabou, Cape Breton Island, where I live, farmers make several kinds of hay bales but my favorites are the big round bales. I like to imagine what goes into them besides grass: violets, wild strawberries, goldenrod, and mint. These quilts are visual poems.
The quilts in this series are dyed as monotypes. I use thickened dye to make patterns on my formica work surface and then press the fabric onto the dye.
One Round Bale
44 x 44”
$2,000 CDN/US
When you meet a hay bale in a field, you realize it weighs a lot more than you do.
This quilt was made from a single piece of cotton fabric that I printed as a monotype with dye (the “bale” twice) and machine quilted.
Hay Bales on the Move
52 x 54”
$2,900 CDN/US
Each round hay bale is the same, yet each one is different.
This quilt was made from cotton fabrics that I printed as monotypes with dye (twice) and then assembled and machine quilted.
Hay Bales Under a Bright Blue Sky
60 x 21”
Private collection
Round bales dot the landscape throughout the summer, and in the fall are lined up ready to be brought home to the cows for the winter.
I printed the "bales" with dye as monotypes, assembled them, and printed the background. Machine quilted.
Hay Bales Parting Ways
38 x 37”
$2,000 CDN/US
The hay bales are huge spirals of condensed life.
This quilt was made from one piece of cotton fabric that I printed as a monotype with dye and then cut and re-assembled, and was machine quilted.