Tree of No Hurry (2017) will be part of the Trees Exhibit at QuiltWorks Gallery which opens on Friday July 6, 2018. The show will run through July.

QuiltWorks is a Central Oregon quilt shop that has a gallery upstairs and supports the Central Oregon traditional and art quilting community through its monthly shows featuring the works of local quilters, quilting groups and guilds.
Here is more about the QuiltWorks Gallery from their website:

If you are new to my blog, Tree of No Hurry began in an appliqué class with the wonderful teacher Janet Shorten at the Stitchin’ Post quilt shop in Sisters, Oregon in May 2016. Here are the related posts about the beginning of the piece, it’s evolution, wrangling embroidery floss, etc.:
- Adventures in Appliqué
- Quilt Retreat Inspiration and Projects
- The Backstitch and the End of Tangled Floss
- Everything is Accomplished
Tree of No Hurry is part of my “Nature Stories” series of quilts. You can view my current four series of art quilts on my Art Quilt Stories page.
Here is the Artist Statement/story behind it:
TREE OF NO HURRY (2017)
25.5” W x 27” L, cotton fabric, embroidery floss
Designed, pieced and quilted by Tierney Davis Hogan
THE STORY OF THIS PIECE:
How often do we hurry about in our lives attempting “to do” everything we feel we must accomplish?
This quote by ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu reminds us that a force as powerful as Nature (with a “to-do list” greater than we could imagine) does not hurry and still gets the important stuff accomplished.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. – Lao Tzu
A delightful piece, Tierney. Exactly what I needed to see at the start of a busy work-a-day. Thank you and well done.
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Thank you, it is something I am always working on as I tend to be a little bit Attentive Deficit Hyperactive/Overachieving at times. 🙂
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Me too! That’s why I hand stitch — it calms and slows me down.
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Congratulations! I hope you are keeping track of the galleries and shows your quilts are in. Iknow from experience that they all run together if they aren’t written down 🙃
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I am and I have a page on my website to track them:
https://tierneycreates.com/exhibits-shows-more/
It makes me nearly seem like a real artist – ha!
Thanks for the great advice and you and I think alike! 🙂
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Congratulations!
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Thanks!
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Congratulations! Great piece!
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Thank so much 🙂
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Exciting! Congratulations Tierney 😊
It’s wonderful that you have a shop that has a gallery for local artists.
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Thanks 😀
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Beautiful quilt – congratulations on having it in a show! Love the thought provoking quote! Happy Independence Day!
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Thank you so much and I hope you have a wonderful Independence Day also😀
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What a wonderful message! Congratulations on being featured in the show!
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Thanks so much 🙂
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Thanks for the reminder of this beautiful truth and principle. Trees (and quilts!) are the best teachers. Glad to see that others will get to enjoy this quilt and message, now, too. 🙂
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Thank you and I will be sharing photos from the show soon 🙂
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This is such a great quilt… I think it was one of the pieces you were working on when I first started reading your blog! I remember you getting to grips with the embroidery techniques, and also with the inevitable tangling of the thread skeins! (Happens to us all! 😂) I love the quote, and your artist’s statement is concise and well-written, too. Beautiful work!
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Thanks so much I really appreciate your kind words and for remembering the related stories😀😀😀
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But of course! 😀
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Wonderful statement and quote! Great words to live by. 😊♥️
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