Often I will save pics of quilts, for inspiration. Usually I am pretty good about marking them to designer, etc. And can fairly easily find it again in the computer folder I save them to.

Now, I am thinking of a quilt, and want to use it as a guide to what I want to make, and cannot find it.

It is not one found here on the QB. It is a portrait quilt, the background is a beige/cream/tan/peach kind of patchwork, and there is thread sketchs of different parts of a woman - hands in one spot, face in another, just the eye in another - and the entire head to chest in another place. All sketches different sizes, sort of blending together. All done in a brown thread.

I have checked all the usual portrait quilt artists, and it is not even the style of any of those (at least not the ones I remembered to check). I Googled "portrait quilts" and of course that brought up a million different sites.

I think it may have been something to do with Alzheimers or something, but am not postiive.

Can anyone help?

I don't know but check out this alzheimer site. I scanned some of them and the closest I see would be "Faded" but I don't think that's it. I'll keep perusing.

Silly me-forgot the link!
http://www.alzquilts.org/loatallqu.html

Thanks for looking, the link though opens up the "see all" page, and I can't find one title only "faded", where did you find it?

Sorry-it was Fading. LT255 I think this is a better link:
http://www.alzquilts.org/loatallqu.html

Took me awhile to find where I found it!

No, that is not it - but WOW that is cool! As soon as I saw it, I am sort of thinking it was this artist. On her website (http://hollisart.com/gallery_figurative.php) - especially the way that "captured", "thirsty", "desert vision" & "blue tuareg" are just thread sketches on a pieced background, similar to what I am looking for. But the exact one is not there.

Perhaps I should email her and ask.

I didn't think so because there's no arms, legs, etc. I'll keep my eye out! I went the the Shelbourn Museum in Vermont when they had an Alzheimer's quilt exhibit but I can't remember the quilts and you weren't allowed to take pictures.

Well, Hollis Chantelain got back to me, and it is not hers, so she suggested Lura Schwarz Smith, but it doesn't seem to be hers either. Will keep looking.

Found it! Woo-hoo!

[url]http://mariaelkins.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ElkinsMaria-RedeemingFragments.jpg[/rl]

Looks like someone's doodling. Imagine doing that with thread!