The Sleeping Giant is a nickname for the large peninsula that stretches out into Lake Superior near the city of Thunder Bay.  Visible from all parts of the surrounding area, the morning sun rises above it and is reflected in the water below.   To recreate it, I used coloured poly-cottons and traditional piecework and circular echo quilting radiating from the centre and repeated the horizontal giant six times.  I entered it and two paintings into the Artists North of Superior exhibition about this landmark that took place at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery in 1982.  The exhibition was entitled Take It For Granite and my quilt was the only one in the exhibition of more traditionally accepted art forms. I lived in Thunder Bay for our first ten years of marriage and taught myself how to make quilts during this time. Technically this is not my very first quilt. (that one no longer exists) but it is the first quilt that caused me to realize that quilts are a profound medium for artists.  

Sleeping Giant: yellow, orange and red solid and mini-print cottons and cotton poly blends, arranged in triangles and horizontal bars, machine pieced and hand quilted, bound at the edges by rolling the backing cloth towards the front. 54 x 37 inches 1982  Collection of the Artist.