A quilt tribute to 911

I chose this image to begin my tribute to 911. It is my hope that "We will always remember".

Donna Campbell is now a member of Lake and Mountain Quilt Guild in Seneca, SC. The following quilt was made by her for her husband Rob Campbell.

A quilt tribute to 911

Donna Campbell made this quilt for her husband Rob to honor his service as a fire fighter and as a memorial to 911. Children from St. Francis Cathedral Catholic School in Metuchen, NJ were asked to draw pictures and write their thanks to firemen.

Rob Campbell was Chief of Fire for Edison, NJ at the time of 911. His dept was asked to dispatch rescue units to the site of of the World Trade Center where 343 firefighters lost their lives.

Donna and Rob attended funerals for the next nine Saturdays in respect for the fallen firefighters. Donna says, " Normally a fireman's funeral would have thousands attending. There were so many funerals to attend that some only had 200 present."

Donna says, "Making this quilt was a way I could memorialize the time I spent with my husband at the funerals of firefighter as well as a way of honoring his own service as a firefighter."

A quilt tribute to 911

This is the label Donna made for this quilt describing the meaning behind its creation.

Below are squares that were drawn by students. Donna and Rob chose the ones they liked best and she printed them on fabric.

A quilt tribute to 911

A quilt tribute to 911

A quilt tribute to 911

A quilt tribute to 911

A quilt tribute to 911

sun dying

This image is the result of the organza shadow being laid on wet paint and left in the sun to dry. The background design was made by a black plastic bag that I had laid behind the fabric to protect the table. I really like the lighter streaks to the left top of the shadow.

sun dying

"High Fiber" an art quilt group I belong to choose sun dying as the project for this month. I've sun dyed before so knew a little about what I was going to do. I took a piece of PFD fabric sprayed it with water and applied my paints. I laid out an Angle Hair Fern, this is a very delicate fine fern. I also added a a couple of large leafs from a coleus plant.

I decided to try something a little different and mixed up some paints hoping to get a color close to sepia. I laid a cut-out of a shadow from a photograph I took last February and a piece of organza that I had printed from the same photograph. I was delighted with the results. I predict that you will get tired of this image before I do.

The lighter image on this fabric was accomplished by laying a cut-out of paper on wet painted fabric. The darker image is printed organza.