A special thanks to Sheelagh Richards for coming to Houston with me and taking some really great photos...although most of them are just me and my quilt!
I did a little PR for Costa Rican coffee while I my head was swelling from the adulations. A few lucky people went home with a bag of coffee.
For those of you who have followed my blog and progress....I have come a long way from my first sketch as shown below.
“I am so proud to be representing Costa Rica
As I watched my neighbors head off one
morning to pick coffee, I reflected on the dichotomy between the current influx
of technology (cell phones, cell towers, laptops, and flat screen TVs) and the
manually intensive process of hand picking coffee beans. This was the inspiration for my quilt “Pickin
Berries”.
I wanted to capture three generations
of Costa Ricans maintaining their agri-tradition of hand picking coffee
berries, even as technology encroaches on the horizon and modernization
influences the youth.
I
hope my work will encourage more women to enjoy the art of quilting in Costa Rica¨
