by Mary Kay Fosnacht Overland Park, KS, USA Piecefularts.com 20" w x 32" h (51 x 81 cm) Throughout history, the image of Mary has been a source of solace and intercession, especially in moments of profound suffering and uncertainty. Rosa Mystica draws upon this tradition, evoking Mary as the Mystical Rose—an enduring symbol of compassion, healing, and steadfast presence amid human struggle.   The quilt’s central figure, radiant in blue and gold, recalls both icon and appariti

My series of quilts for Femina draws on my family history. They interrogate the lives of my grandmother, my mother and my own by asking what was life like for three generations of 20 year old women? Our family history is, sadly, rather sketchy, so I have been trying to piece it together. Stitching these stories is one way to do it. FEMINA 1 20 in the 1920s My grandmother was born in 1901 and so, her 20s were played out in the 1920s, a time of great change for women in the UK

My roots are deep and have a strong connection to those before me. Strong, resilient, hard working women. This is the first in the Femina series. I am using trees as a metaphor for female. I have used hand dyed and deconstructed dyed fabric. The fabric was twisted together to form the free hanging roots. Turned applique, Machine quilted with hand stitching. Close up

Challenge # 12 Femina - latin for woman is a very broad topic that we will be focusing on for the next three challenges. I have decided to focus on how women throughout history have used textiles and fibre arts to communicate messages, in times of confinement, slavery and resistance.  Documentation throughout history has shown the use of textiles and fibres arts have been used as a method of recording the current events and sending messages to others. For this first piece, I