Tulips

Early on, my tulip cushion was in a Cloth & Stitch show -- in 1993 - right beside this piece by Louise Baldwin, one of my textile heroes - she was stitching onto brown paper, crumpled and painted -

That's a hard act to follow, but here's the tulip cusion, silks applied to velvet:

And a detail. I loved every step of making this cushion; so much careful stitching -
Ten years later, more tulips, in the form of a book cover -
and a detail, showing the hasty construction -