Since I presented two seminar sessions at the recent Minnesota Quilters Conference, I got to have a piece in the Faculty section of the exhibition hall.  This is “Read & Red” and is another interactive QR code art piece.  This time, instead of zapping you off to a website, the QR code in this piece contains a secret message and the whole thing is a bit of a pun.  Unfortunately, in the location where this was hanging at the show, there just wasn’t enough light for the QR code to read properly.  At least I couldn’t get it to work on my phone, I am not sure if it worked for anyone else.  Sigh.  So I thought I would post it here and you can try it out.  Here is the artwork, in a nice crisp digital format as I don’t think it will work from the photo.

I did some hand quilting, which you can see here a little bit, but mostly it was machine stitched.  All of the colored fabrics are digitally printed on my home printer.  The reds aren’t as vibrant as I was hoping.  I would rather have ordered Spoonflower fabric, but I didn’t know I could have a quilt in the exhibition until just a few days before it was due, so I was working a little quickly.

(I will post the secret message in the comments in case you don’t have a smart phone and want to know what it says.)