While growing up in Switzerland, sewing and art were always a part of Madeleine Bajracharya's life. After moving to the US, she made her first quilt, drafting the design in metric units based on a quilt she saw in a magazine. Since then, she has lived in many different parts of the world and has embraced and incorporated the art from the many cultures into her quilts. While initially creating many traditional quilts, her designs have now evolved to an emphasis on geometric design, the use of color, and objects in nature. To achieve a unique effect, she makes her own fabric using various techniques including dyeing, printing, discharge, and shibori.


Mars
$475

Black cotton fabric
Discharge with different resists, mono-printed, hand appliquéd and embroidered, machine quilted

This quilt is one in a series that all use the fabric resulting from my experiments of discharging various black fabrics with different resists. It is based on a geometric design of projected spheres. Choosing the perfect fabric for each sphere and creating a design to unify them was both the challenge and joy of this quilt.