Sunrise 24 was a calming art quilt to design and create. I spent time studying the light as it appears in a sunrise by looking at photographs. I find ideas on paintings of sunrises too for how the colors present, then morph quickly. With this quilt I went back to one of my design standards with trees in the foreground on one side of the art quilt, giving the quilt some balance and grounding while letting the background speak for itself.
I used more varied free motion quilt stitching in the foreground and also a bit more variation in the lake area. Finally, I left the low hills unquilted which give the art quilt some depth.
This is a landscape I see in my central Pennsylvania area when enjoying an eastern orientation. My house faces west so sunsets are always gracing my
large first floor windows. But the mornings when I open the drapes facing west and see pink in the sky are the best. I go outside and turn to the east to see a gorgeous sunrise with color painted 360 degrees around the horizon from my hilltop viewpoint.
From the questions I receive from this blog, I know many of my followers are fellow quilters. In this post I’m including a photo of the back of the pieced quilt so you can better understand how the quilt is put together. The entire quilt is pieced, not rough edge applique which many landscape quilters use.