Lollipop, Lollipop, Oh! Lolli, Lolli, Lolli, Lollipop!

Pieced & Quilted By:

Teri O’Meara

Description:

This quilt is an interpretation of a quilt made by my Great Grandmother and finished by my Grandmother, Mary Agnes Hangley O’Meara. When I would visit her she would bring it out and my brother and I would march his toy soldiers up and down the paths made by the blocks. The pattern is #92 Ladies Art Company published in1895 or 1889. My quilt was begun in 1967 with pink silk fabric from my Junior Prom dress and quilted in 2019. In Addition to the technical issues of working with different weights of silk, the supreme challenge was to take the repetitive block and change the value and hue to create the illusion of varied patterns that would produce movement when viewed from a distance. The final challenge was to incorporate the poison green shades of the original quilt and make them work with whatever fabrics I could gather from silk ties, gifted and thrifted clothing and some purchased fabrics. Meticulous ditching prevents distortion of design elements.

Quilted On:

Domestic

Pattern Source:

This is a Traditional Design in Public Domain

Techniques:

100% silk pieced each log ditched, Hand dyed cotton backing