Henri Matisse Quilt

Bookerworx has most recently made delivery of a beautiful King-Size Quilt. The quilt was based on the Paper Cut by Henri Matisse named The Dance (1938) and was Designed by Ronald Bricke and Associates, Inc. of New York City.

Danika Norey (Bookerworx) did the piecing and appliqué, and roped in some help for the sandwiching and basting. (Thank you Hubs, Matt and Craig) The quilt was designed unconventionally with Home Decor fabric, which offered many challenges. The fabric required extra steps and care to create the end result. I serged every cut edge before it was pieced together. We also found that some of the fabrics, although pre-washed, were not color-fast and extra caution was taken as to not end up with a pink quilt.

Anne Lemin, of Quilted Lovelies, completed all of the hand quilting, which is a beautiful Hawaiian echo-style with each row 3/4″ apart. Anne also bound the quilt. I cannot thank her enough for the amount of blood, sweat and tears she put in to this piece of Art.

Fun Fact: This quilt traveled over 3000 miles on its journey to be finished…From New York to Texas and back again, with other stops in between!

More pics to come!!