NEW ART QUILTS

These new ‘Story Quilts’ are created from an open ended account of human experience that inspires and guides the imagery. I thought of the creation of these narrative quilts as layered cloth vessels filled with aesthetics, experience and memory - they are ‘fabric documents’. My intent is to offer an invitation to think, respond and react - allowing one to come to their own conclusion about the meaning of what is seen.

Professionally finished with a hanging sleeve & rod, or a framed mount.

Black, white and red contemporary folk art quilt with floating houses, people and hands, embellished with buttons, by fiber artist Elizabeth Garlington of Western North Carolina.

THE RUBY BEGONIA QUILTING CLUB

This art quilt paints the story of creative hands actively piecing quilts in traditional nine-patch patterns and crafting yo-yos from vintage fabrics amid bright red, ruby begonias and cherry-colored buttons in a community of quilters… LEARN MORE HERE.

Mounted and Framed - 40 × 40 inches

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Detail of quilted red hand with black and white checkered star and button embellishments.
Black, pink and red contemporary folk art quilt with floating houses, bodies, hands, and flowers, embellished with buttons, by fiber artist Elizabeth Garlington of Western North Carolina.

AFTER THE RAIN: THE PINK GARDEN OF QUILTING DELIGHT

This art quilt paints the story of a community of quilters and singing birds, dancing in the flower gardens, celebrating the renewal of springtime rainfall… LEARN MORE HERE.

Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches

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Detail of pink and red quilted hand with appliqued flower embellishments.
Black, white and blue contemporary folk art quilt with floating houses, bodies and hands, embellished with buttons, by fiber artist Elizabeth Garlington of Asheville, NC.

AFTER THE FLOOD: QUILTERS WILL QUILT

This art quilt depicts the creative resilience quilters find in the creative process and the healing act of piecing and quilting fabric in response to the tragedies flood waters bring to our communities. Quilters, speaking through their craft, console those who suffer the traumas wrought by mountain flood waters… LEARN MORE HERE.

Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches

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Detail of yellow and white quilted houses with blue background.
Blue, white and purple contemporary folk art quilt with floating houses, birds, people and hands, embellished with buttons, by fiber artist Elizabeth Garlington of Waynesville, NC.

THE MIDNIGHT QUILTERS OF GEE'S BEND

This art quilt portrays the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama who gather in a quilting circle long after supper has been served, children put to bed, and the songs of night time crickets and birds are the only sounds heard in the darkness of night. The women of the Bend, in the midnight hours, hand quilt the remaining remnants of work clothes... LEARN MORE HERE.

Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches

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Detail of blue quilted flying bird with blue flower and purple and white background.
Black, white and red contemporary folk art quilt of a woman with a yellow flowered dress and long hair surrounded by a colorful crow and long stemmed flowers with an orange polka dot background, by fiber artist Elizabeth Garlington of WNC.

JAMAICA SAYS SHE WILL

This contemporary Art Quilt was inspired by the song, Jamaica, Say You Will, by Jackson Browne, 1972. It tells the story of a young, lovely girl named Jamaica who lives by the sea watching the tides come and go and lays in the tall grass where the shadows fall; under a canopy of bright orange lilies with only a raven as a companion… LEARN MORE HERE.

Finished w/Hanging Sleeve - 36 × 36 inches

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Detail of colorful quilted crow with orange background with free motion stitching.

"Elizabeth Garlington’s sassy, narrative quilts can hold their own anywhere."

- The Atlanta Journal Constitution

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