This quilt is made using the stained glass windows of the Chapel on campus as a pattern. They were designed by a Lakota (Sioux) artist to symbolize the seven sacred rites of the Lakota, along with the sacred pipe and the Morning Star. Red, White, Yellow and Black are symbolic colors. It's quilted with the Morning Star motif along the border, and each square has a circle with cross for the medicine wheel. The inner blocks are minimally quilted, the background blue is outlined and filled, and a few other pieces are outlined to give definition.
I cut out the colors using batiks, and glued them to the fairy frost background fabric. I made yards and yards of 1/4 fusible bias using black batik, and then carefully fused it, making sure all ends were covered by an overlapping piece. And then I sat at my machine and did a narrow topstitch along both edges of the bias.
I went through 8 - 40' packets of the fusible tape for this project.