Veggie Salad

Name/Title

Veggie Salad

Description

Block: Clamshells

Made/Created

Artist

Rachel Siegel

Place

City

Lebanon

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Interpretative Labels

Label

"The classic clamshell design is reimagined as a layered veggie platter. The pieces were carefully cut, machine pieced and then embellished with hand embroidery involving hundreds of tiny colonial knots (broccoli), feather, daisy & chain stitches, and needle-woven 3D tomato leaves. Machine quilting provides additional texture. As a cheeky nod to the theme, the quilt’s label is made to look like a salad dressing label. The curved piecing and handwork were incredibly labor intensive, so feast your eyes on the quilt!"

General Notes

Note Type

Techniques Used

Note

Machine (curved!) piecing. Hand embroidery. Machine quilting.

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Materials Used

Note

Quilting cottons, Aurifil 50wt quilting thread, various pearl cottons and embroidery flosses