Art Quilts 1 old world revisited

Thought seeings as I told somebody I considered myself an Art Quilter I should post some photos of my original works..hope ya like them..This one I called "Old World Revisited" because it reminded me of medieval tapestries you see in olden day castles..not that I have ever seen one maybe in a previous life perhaps..it is Sheridan bedspread fabric, jacquard beige and silver one side and the reverse on the other, so I turned the outside borders onto the front and stitched them, I was using holly burton thick wool wadding and because of the intense quilting when I removed it from the machine it was like a Mexican wave..all over the shop,I had to unpick two inches down either side of micro stipple and cut them off, replace the borders and color then again and quilt them. I had quilted around the pattern in the fabric, up the middle of the wall hanging then coloured it with Derwent Watercolour pencils, set them with fabric medium and quilted it again with metallic silver thread..the feathers I quilted into the edge of the middle where coloured with pastil chalk pencils and set with Jo Sonja textile medium. it was then "blinged" with Swarovski Crystals.This quilt received a second place in the "Sydney Quilt show" in 2008
Pity the folds are so visible from the travel to the show...it hangs beautifully at home and the colours are much nicer in person. The binding is purple velvet over bound with cross stitched bling and beads.I couldnt find tassels to match the colour so I pulled the threads from the fabric rolled it up and made the tassels to match the wall hanging, and people wonder why I am precious about my work the tassels were beaded also, many hours went into this piece...even the bought beaded fringe was stablised with more thread. The lace on the outer borders was made on my Janome embroidery machine in colours to match the coloring in the middle.