QUILT INDEX RECORD

52-152-512

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Quilt Alliance

Who documented this quilt?

Quilt Alliance; Inspired By

Quilt Alliance Inventory Number:

37

Quilt Title:

Kaffe, Klimt and the Cosmos

Width:

16 inches

Length:

16 inches

Time period:

2000-2025

Date:

June 1, 2014

Materials:

Commercial cotton fabric, fused appliqué, machine quilted

Quiltmaker:

Flaherty, Ellie

City:

Falls Churce

State:

Virginia

Artist's Statement:

My inspiration was the simplicity of the Postage Stamp/One Inch Square design and our quilting mothers’ gift of turning bits of fabric into works of art.

I love the fabric designs of Kaffe Fassett, the art of Gustav Klimt and the dazzling special effects of the recent Cosmos television series and wanted to use all three in a quilt. The one-inch ‘mini-quilts’ were fused onto the stitched grid and machine embellished with thread and bits of gold lame fabric. The ‘cosmos’ was handmade from fused silk fibers, Angelina, tulle, and machine quilted with holographic thread.

Inspiration quilt:
 

 

Harma, Emma K. Gerhardt. Postage Stamp; Squares. 1918. From Nebraska Quilt Project.