Beginning Again quilt top

Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell, artist

1931–2023

Beginning Again quilt top, 1980–1985

Where object was made: Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Material/technique: cotton; stitching; piecing; appliqué; embroidering

Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 204.5 x 205.7 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 81 x 80 1/2 in

Credit line: Gift of Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell and Bill

Accession number: 2013.0169

Not on display

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"Personal Geometry: Quilts by Yoshiko Jinzenji and Virginia Jean Cox Mitchell," Feb-2014, Susan Earle and Cassandra Mesick
This quilt top celebrates the coming of spring, Easter, and the yearly renewal of flora and fauna. In addition to Easter symbolism, such as the Crown of Thorns quilt block and the egg, the artist (an avid gardener) has incorporated every imaginable emblem heralding springtime, as if showing us in stylized form her own garden. Animals are lovingly portrayed and appear throughout. Surrounding the narrative scene are layers of ornate, geometric borders. This is a fully finished quilt top that the artist used as a bed-cover every spring; as with others, she left it unquilted in order to move on to new projects.