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So when I left you last, I had pieced together my red silk and the pieces of old silk kimono and had begun to apply my leftover bits of black fused fabric.
After I'd laid them all out, fused them down and quilted the piece, I began to think that I had named it incorrectly. I mean, it was the flotsam from my "Walking While Black" attempts, and it was meeting the Japanese kimonos...
...but perhaps I should have called it "Creature Feature"!
There was something vaguely alligator-ish, something that looked a bit like an antelope...
... a fun monster-guy,
a horse, a snake, an eye (actually, there are two or three eyes in this piece)...
a werewolf-ish strongman type guy,
and of course, The Blob.
What was fun about finding these "people" is that they weren't cut on purpose - there they were, in the bits.
This piece has been very popular ever since I finished it. BSP and my boys have been arguing over who gets to have it, and a co-worker wanted to buy it (but not at the price I was selling it). And the Drunken Quilters loved it as well.
Hope you like it too!
See you on Monday with the beginnings of something new.
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Great finish !! Love this happy quilt - seems a bit like cloud-watching to me? Wondering what you may see in the shapes?
ReplyDeleteMakes me think of those ink blob tests!
ReplyDeleteCan't reveal what I see :)
Love the colours.
Yes, I do love it too!
ReplyDeleteI love this piece! Such energy! you've laid the "characters" like a choreographer.
ReplyDeleteThe serendipity of found chunks of fabric is how I start new designs..round them up by color and then work with whatever shape they are in..
I love the title...very appropriate I think. I love this piece. I bet you got lots of satisfaction in making it.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like all the flotsam coming over from Japan after the tsunami. Maybe you could call it Japanese flotsam meets the west.
ReplyDeleteLove it BTW
Reminds me of all the flotsam from Japan after the tsunami.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could call it Japanese Flotsam Meets the West.
Oh boy, this I love! Is it ok if I try my version of it? Looks fun. Lotsa fun! :-)
ReplyDeletewow, it's beautiful and really clever
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome Rorschach conversation piece!!! I bet it'll entertain plenty of people looking at what the shapes make them think of. What a huge success from scraps!
ReplyDeleteI love it! It reminds me of looking at the clouds to see what you can come up with or the branches in trees. It was the way I relaxed as a child.
ReplyDeleteI can see why your boys are fighting over it.
It reminds me of those ink blot test, very clever!
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