Summer Moon, Winter Moon

The town of Leavenworth WA was in sad shape a number of decades ago with severe financial problems as a result of loss of industry. The townspeople reinvented Leavenworth as a Bavarian town, initiating many festivals, resulting in the town becoming a Destination in Central Washington.

This quilt is designed for the 20^th annual Leavenworth WA Quilt Show Challenge.  The theme is “Moon Over Leavenworth”, and requires the use of the green & periwinkle fabric featured in the lower landscape section of the quilt.

Other materials include hand-dyed cottons, Dupioni Silk, batik, heat-set crystals, thread painting and photos printed on fabric. The symbolism of the quilt, from the bottom:

• The Wenatchee River citing the town of  "Leavenworth”
• The shoreline flowers represent the huge quantity of flower baskets in town
• The green town area and hillsides are done with the required challenge fabric and represent summer. This section contains Bavarian town shops, alphorn musicians, and cabins in the woods. (My private backstory:  the three alphorn musicians are the Lundegaard Triplets (a nod to the movie Fargo) named Ernst, Klaus, and Wolfgang. They live in the three cabins in the woods. Ha Ha.)
• The high pointy mountains in the background represent the Cascade Mountains.
• The crescent moon showcases the town center gazebo during Christmas Lighting with a large thread-painted fir tree in the background.  A partridge sits in the pear tree, holding mistletoe in its beak.