"Mountain Doll Maker": Quilt Art by Rebekka Seigel

Also based on a photograph taken by Doris Ullman in the 30’s, this portrait of a woman carving a doll is placed in front of one of my all time favorite traditional patterns, “Flying Geese”. The triangles in this design are traditionally meant to evoke the image of geese in flight, but I use them here to represent the mountain backdrop of the life of this woman. Fabrics used to construct the pieced portion of the quilt are scraps from the 30’s which were given to me for this project by one of my students.