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