By Marlene Brown Woodfield

Show Caption: “Excitement shows in the face of this young birthday girl as she begins to open her pretty gifts.

On my grandaughter, Leah’s third birthday, I took a sensational picture of her holding one of her gifts. I decided to try to make it into a quilt. The face was difficult because, of course, only a photograph could reproduce that beautiful face. I felt that each time I added a quilting line, that aged her.

I used a lot of her favorite color, plurple, and accomplished the “essence” of Leah.”

Size: 49″ wide x 44″ long

Year completed: 1996

Batt: Hobbs 80/20

Fabric: commercial cotton, with some hand dye painting for shadows

Construction techniques: hand applique, machine pieced, machine quilted

History:

Columbus Heritage Quilt Show, Columbus, IN, March 1997.

Indiana State Quilt Guild special display at Quilt America! , Indianapolis, IN, May, 1997.

String-A-Long Quilt Guild Show, Valaparaiso, IN, April 1998, special display of quilts by Marlene Woodfield.

Mayor’s Council for the Arts, Mayor’s Block Party, Gourmet Quilter’s Show, Michigan City, IN, July 1998.

Indiana University northwest Gallery presents Quilters of Northwest Indiana – Sue Faber, Marlene Woodfield, and Marilyn Tolhuizen, Month-long display in the Art Gallery, February-March 1999.

Given to Leah Michele Krause, Christmas, 2005.