SKY SKIFFS

3 more skiffs in the sky?

I almost forgot about them myself.

15 skiffs in...

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Drop Your Nets.

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SKIFFS, NETS & WATER

In the previous post I showed 3 skiff quilt blocks. At the time I thought they came out too large - the reason they never made it into the quilt I was planning.

I went on to reduce the design & made these12 skiffs. They were stitched to of a background of nets & water, creating this quilt.

Drop Your Nets

© Marge Malwitz

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THE INSPIRING SKIFF

SKIFF

A shallow, flat-bottomed open boat with sharp bow & square stern.

3 individual quilt blocks.

Unfinished project.

Still perking.

Inspiring Rockport, a lobstering seaport on the north shore of Massachusetts.

Lots of skiffs.

LIVING BY THE SEA

I don't actually live by the sea but I sort of feel like it when I surround myself with coastal art.

Decided to bring out the Rockport, Massachusetts inspired art quilts this summer.

I think there were 15 in the series when I made them back in...when was that? Whatever! Some sold, some gifted & these 8 are what I have left.

We are enjoying them in our gallery space of a home here in Connecticut.

The oil painting in the top photo, Sea Place, is by Michael Metzger, my painting professor. I have 3 of his paintings for which I traded stoneware hand-built pots & handwoven tapestries I made back in college.

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