Carnival
Mary Hickey’s Meadowlark blocks made entirely from my own fabric scraps and scraps scavenged from others.
79” x 79”
1995 (started in 1993)
1st in category - Arizona Quilters Guild 1995
2nd in category - National Quilters Association 1995
Published in Marie Salazars’ The Quilt: Beauty in Fabric and Thread
Exhibited in 1996 at the Packing House Gallery, Glendale AZ
Exhibited in 1995 at the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Early domestic machine free motion quilting with monofilament thread
Carnival was shown in Marie Salazar's book The Quilt: Beauty in Fabric and Thread
![As part of my planning, I actually did fabric mock-ups - cutting and gluing small fabric shapes to paper - my first and only time doing detailed fabric mock-ups =) [Note: I ended up changing the piecing for Carnival]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60de447805d13404d20e1ddb/d0739620-dd55-44a2-83ef-224e35eaa1a5/IMG_1691.JPG)
As part of my planning, I actually did fabric mock-ups - cutting and gluing small fabric shapes to paper - my first and only time doing detailed fabric mock-ups =) [Note: I ended up changing the piecing for Carnival]