Gallery - Picture Image Applique Portraits

Portraying my dad, George Butler at age 77, proudly displaying his first pieced quilt blocks makes me sing with laughter. After a lifetime career in entomology, (up close and personal with insects) there is cause to celebrate George finding yet another creative passion-especially when it is quilting. George turned 85 in April, 2008.

This quilt has appeared in the International Quilt Festival, Houston, the AQS show in Paduacah and the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival in Williamsburg. It received an Honorable Mention at the Prairie Heritages Quilters Show, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin and a second place at the Rock Valley Quilt Show in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Original design inspired by a photo of George taken in November, 2000
Completed August, 2001

picture image appliqué, machine embroidered and quilted