49.5 X 62.25”
Machine pieced, machine quilted. Commercially printed cotton fabrics, various threads.
When they were young, my French-Canadian grandparents immigrated to this country in search of a better life. Times were hard and he gave her a small rifle so that she might augment their meager stew pot.
She shot one rabbit with that gun and was so devastated, she sat on a nearby stump and cried. She never used the gun again. Many years later my grandfather gave the gun to me, saying since it was a girl's gun, I should have it. My father took the gun from me and gave it to my brother, the favored child. I do not know where the rifle is now, but wherever it is, I know that it belongs
to me, the only thing given to me by my grandparents.
Shown:
I Remember Mama, IQF Houston, TX 2005 Honorable Mention
I Remember Mama, IQF, Rosemont, Il 2006 Exhibit
Patchwork & Quilt Expo, Lyon, France 2006 Exhibit
New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA2007 Exhibit
AQGS, Asheville, N.C. 2007 First Place
Shawnee CO Fair Special Exhibit, Topeka, KS, 2008
LaConnor Quilt Museum, LaConnor, WA 2008
Kaw Valley Quilt Guild Show, Lawrence, KS 2010 Viewer's Choice
Lark "500 Art Quilts" special exhibit IQF Houston 2010
Art Quilts Reminisce, PAQA South,Page-Walker Art & History Center, Cary, NC 2015
Published:
I Remember Mama. Karey Patterson Bresenhan 2005
Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine #379 Jan/Feb 2006
500 Art Quilts, Lark Books 2010 page 335
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