"The Bears Went Over the Mountain" Art Quilt

The Bears Went Over the Mountain

I made this piece to remind me of the Rocky Mountains when I visited Colorado. There were just mountain after mountain after mountain. Between the mountains and the sunset I don't know what was more beautiful!
Let me tell you a story...to let you know why I put the bears on this quilt.
When my children were growing up we used to to go riding and would always sing in the truck. Well, their dad would never sing, he would just sit over there driving, quietly, smiling, listening to all of us sing. One day he said he had a song for us. All of us looked at each other in disbelief. The children and I were all excited because we had never heard him sing a note. So, he began to sing this song..... very seriously.
"The bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain, to see what he could see.
And all that he could see waaaaaasssssss,
the other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain, was all that he could see."
The children and I laughed and laughed till we had tears rolling down our face!!!! LOL To this day when I see a bear or a mountain that 's what I think of!

This is made from all of my own hand dyed fabrics and was quilted on my home sewing machine. I added the bears and the porcupine quill for embellishment.