100% cotton fabrics and thread, machine pieced, machine appliqué, machine embroidery, machine quilted. One of a group of Tarot card quilts for the Tarot Art Quilt Project.
Ms. Lapachet identifies with the suit of Swords. The sharpness and the straightness of the swords appeals to her sense of order. Also, when she sees a Sword, she knows she needs to stand up and pay attention. The Five is a card about choices. Which figure in the card do you identify with? Make your choice and take that figure's feeling and emotions away with you when you leave the image.
Ms. Lapachet reviewed a lot of different 5 of Sword cards and decided to work with a basic image. She attempted to use color to convey meaning rather than extreme detail. She felt the shadows on the Swords were important and settled on some basic machine embroidery to create them.

The "5 of Swords" is for Sale - contact Ms. Lapachet via artquiltmaker.com. Official appraisal available.

"Seeing Red"



Detail of "Seeing Red"

"Seeing Red" started out as a round robin block exercise with Julie Zaccone Stiller and Adrienne Acoba. We sent each other squares of red fabric and proceeded to add circles to them in the bullseye pattern. When the blocks were complete, we cut the squares up and kept some of each block and sent one quarter each to the other artists. This sharing of block parts makes the quilts truly ‘sister’ quilts. The arrangement of the blocks are individual to each artist. "Seeing Red" was quilted by Colleen Granger.