3CS 3/52 - "Elephants In Peril"

This is my third journal quilt in the series, a bit late due to a family matter that took up most of last week.

I started out with some hand dyed fabric that I'd made with the leftover dye I'd prepared for my snow-dyeing experiement (more on that later this week), using two different lengths.

I drew and cut out the elephants and then applied them to fusible web in both fabric and wide length gossamar ribbon for the shadows:



Afterward, I ironed them to my background fabric and prepared to add the ribbon:


And then got my threads ready for my hand and machine stitching.


When I was done, I decided that it needed a little something more, so I added some beading:



And then I was done.

The words written below the surface are as follows:

Inspired by a poem by Morton Templeton called "Elephant's Plight" - the words written on the right side are:

...
He was hunted now by farmers.

A marauder of fields, a thief in his own lands.
He had searched a long time
This season for a mate,
none to be found.
...

And on the left:

marauder, hunted, famine, drought, ivory hunters, accessories

I don't know why these fabrics made me think of elephants in peril, but they did.

3CS 3/52

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