Floral Design

Editor's Note: "Getting to Know You" is on display at Quilt House through February 6. To celebrate this show's run, International Quilt Study Center & Museum team members are sharing their impressions on select pieces from the exhibition. 

Witch Hazel: Jelena, made by Ruth B. McDowell in
Winchester, Massachusetts, dated 2005.
IQSCM 2006.011.0001.

By Dean Young
Operations Manager

My career choices have always centered on creativity – whether it involved culinary art or crafts in general. A true hobby of mine is floral design. This quilt is an awesome explosion of great color and style in the form of an unusual floral centerpiece focus, something I like doing anytime I get to play with fresh flowers in creating beautiful arrangements.

The quilter mastered it in fabric and thread!