Flower Market, Chichicastenango, Guatemala was made by Meri after she took a trip there with the great Guatemalan quilter, Priscilla Bianchi. When she was in Guatemala, Meri's impression of the country was that she was stepping into a rainbow, and once she returned home, she collaged all the pictures she took together in her mind to create the central image. For the border, as is typical with her international quilts, Meri used fabric from Guatemala to represent the work that the people of the country do.

 

 

See more of Meri's quilts in How to Make a Landscape Quilt with Figures with Meri Henriques Vahl | A Bedturning of Antique Quilts with Lisa Erlandson.