Peace and Tranquility

This year my small quilt group MIX chose the theme Reflection and Renewal, which is based on the renewal taking place at the Portland, Oregon Japanese garden. Our work was to include two pieces. One is a 24 inch square and the other a 10 inch by 24 inch piece which could be oriented in anyway the artist chose.

I chose the interpret the gardens of raked stone, which are referred to as karesansui gardens which literally translates to dry landscape.  The beauty lies in the blank space. My view is top down and the circles represent the tops of trees and bushes which surround these places and spaces. The circles are hand embroidered with many threads representing the branches. These pieces were a joy to work on.

                                                           Peace                                 &  Tranquility

Linking to Off the Wall Friday