Speakeasy Silhouettes

Art

The National Quilt Museum

Name/Title

Speakeasy Silhouettes

Made/Created

Artist

Gail Ryan

Place

City

Reinholds

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Interpretative Labels

Label

When I thought about the Roaring Twenties, two ideas came to mind - speakeasys and mobsters, so I combined those two ideas into three figures - a flapper, trumpet player and a pin-striped mobster.

General Notes

Note Type

Techniques Used

Note

I machine quilted this quilt on my standard home machine using free motion and walking foot.

Note Type

Materials Used

Note

Quilting cotton, hot-fix crystals, handkerchief, pearl string, fringe, sequins, feather, chiffon, cotton batting.