Jezebel and her Sunflowers

Virginia Cruz Carlson

Hand dyed and commercial fabrics, machine embroidered, machine quilted and hand beaded. The petals on the beaded sunflowers were cut out one at a time and hand dyed by the artist. The background fabric was hand dyed, by I believe Robbi Ecklow. It has “mellowed” in my stash for so long, I can’t remember any more. Jezebel is my 18 year old senior. She is a marvelous kitty! While her mates are like a bull in a china shop, knocking things out of their way; she is gentle and enjoys watching me quilt and create, while gingerly walking through the materials to inspect without disturbing. Her one vice is flowers, she loves them! Especially eating sunflowers and always looks at you like “What!?! I didn’t do anything!”