Unveiling 1 chronicles 3:16

I finished the quilting and it has turned out quite nice. It's never perfect....but that's another story :)
I am happy that this piece is conveying my thoughts about families, genealogies, David's lineage, and offspring. But judge for yourselves:

A detail

and other detail

The finished quilt. A tree with roots, planted along the streams. The smaller trees symbolizing the sons of David. The reddish strip with the verse symbolizing the continuity of Gods' work using sinful man. Hope only by feeding from the waters of Life.

from sketch to before-quilting stage

Here some pictures from what I have been working on last week and this week. Based on "And the sons of Johoiakim: Jeconiah his son, Zedekiah his son.

sketch to work from

Colour scheme I wanted to use, but not so happy with the brown. Have been trying to find a good 'tree' fabric, but in the end I decided.......

to actually draw the outlines on fabric and paint 'whole cloth :)' I thought of using inktense pencils, but I couldn't get the colours I wanted, so I tried acrylic inks. I have a limited range and used mainly red, blue, yellow, white. and mixed a lot.

That has been a good decision I think. This is my first whole cloth painting and it's very exciting!

Finished painting, ready for quilting now!