While I was thinking about my 4th quilt in my “Sacred Heart” series, I remembered that July was an important month for one of Mexico’s most famous artist, Frida Kahlo.  She was born on July  6, 1907 and passed away on July 13, 1954.  I wanted to pay homage to Frida by incorporating some of her famous traits somehow with my theme.  That was my challenge.  I used traditional Mexican woven fabrics that I had previously made sofa pillows with, so the use of scraps continue.  I layered the colorful fabrics and machine quilted simple lines to the background.  I added cotton lace and frayed the black woven fabric underneath it to make it fringy and add more texture.  I wanted lots of color and texture.   I appliquéd a raw edge faux trapunto heart for her face, I did the same with the hair.  I appliquéd and then added black eyelash yarn representing the thorns and also her eyebrows.  I rolled and twisted raw edge woven fabric for the primitive flowers and then added green eyelash yarn for the leaves which also represent the flames.  I then embellished a little bit and made her some special earrings.  The flowers, yarns,  beads, buttons and cross were all hand sewn.  I experimented with different fabrics, colors and techniques for the flowers, but I really liked the way the primitive flowers added more texture and giving it all a whimsical look.