"My Old Kentucky Home": Quilt Art by Rebekka Seigel

Each small vignette in this piece represents something about my house, its setting and its industry in the countryside of Kentucky. My favorite event on any day is the spotting of a heron flying over our pond. In the summer my flower beds display a dizzying palette of color amidst the perennial green of the surrounding woods. The pond is a lush background to my husband’s pottery which is found in unexpected places all around our property. The small pictures which are all machine appliquéd and quilted are surrounded by lots of silk yo yos, a novelty quilt making technique developed in the 1920’s. Dupioni silk, the main fabric used in this piece, provides a lustrous surface for the absorption of the dyes and I am seduced by the sense of light reflected by those surfaces.