"Dragon Dance" by Sheild Frampton-Cooper was featured in the Appliqué category at Quiltcon 2022.
Artist Statement: "It was early 2020, just before the pandemic hit, and I was in a strange headspace. I'd recently returned from living abroad for six years, and I felt lost. Creatively I was stunted and this had never happened to me. However, I simply allowed myself to be where I was, depressed. One day, looking through a yoga magazine and I noticed a simple line drawing of a Mandala, and something inside of me started to stir! I grabbed my iPad and started drawing like crazy. The design for this quilt was the first one that came through. My son said it looked like a dragon, and in particular, a dragon you'd see in the traditional Chinese celebration "Dragon Dance." Dragons come up for me quite often, and this is also my sign in Chinese astrology. And as she was born, as I was reborn."
Techniques: Machine Pieced, Machine Appliqué, Machine Quilted without a frame (domestic) ; This technique is actually a mixture of piecing and appliqué and I've used my hand dyed cotton fabric.
