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Gallery of
Canyon Quilter,
Jill Le Croissette
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"All That Remains"
1998
31" x 31"
Cottons, some hand-dyed, safety pins, cotton threads, cotton
batting.
Machine pieced, hand and machine appliqued, machine quilted.
My reaction to the diagnosis
of breast cancer
and the subsequent mastectomy.
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"Chasm"
1997
39.5" x 40.5"
Cottons, cotton thread, cotton batting.
Machine Pieced and quilted, embellished.
Depicts a chasm as seen from
below,
with sunlight pouring through the crack in the dark rocks.
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"Crazy for Buttons"
1997
22" x 23.5"
Cottons, antique and other buttons,
metallic thread, cotton batting.
Machine pieced and quilted, embellished.
A gift of antique buttons and
Gwen Marston's
Liberated Quiltmaking inspired this small quilt.
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"Out of the Shadow"
1998
Cottons, variegated rayon thread, cotton batting.
Machine pieced, hand appliques and quilted.
As I began to recover from breast
cancer surgery,
I felt as if I was coming out of the shadows into life again.
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"Piercing the Skin of the Present"
1999
19.5" x 26"
Cottons, some hand-dyed, cotton threads, cotton batting.
Machine pieced, hand appliqued and quilted.
The title flashed into my mind
when I was thinking of those
instants of memory that overtake one sometimes.
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"Summer's Lease
1997
29.5" x 28"
Cottons, some hand-dyed, rayon and
metallic threads, cotton/polyester batting.
Machine pieced, appliqued and quilted, fused.
The title is taken from a line
in a Shakespearean sonnet:
"and summer's lease has all too short a date."
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"Tropical Heatwave"
1998
35" x 36"
Cottons, cotton thread, cotton batting
Machine pieced and quilted.
Inspired by the steamy heat of
a tropical night lit by lightening flashes.
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