Raw materials:
- 6 yards of a textured linen/poly blend, cream
- 4 yards of a textured cotton/poly blend, blood
- 4 yards of satin, purple
- 1 yard of kona cotton, purple
- 1 yard of kona cotton, blood
- 1/2 yard of kona cotton, blue
- 2 squares of hand woven/dyed cloth created by a women's collective in Ghana, multi
- Various threads & binding, not pictured
- Canvas, not pictured
- Warm & Natural cotton batting, not pictured
- Cat hair, not pictured***
I *love* textured cloths. Textures make me happy, prints get on my nerves. The picture above does not do the two textured cloths justice at all, so here are sucky close-ups that also don't give them justice to give you an idea:
This will be turned into a quilted wrap skirt to be among items auctioned in support of the Interfictions 2 anthology. Source material is the story "Berry Moon" by Camilla Bruce.
Step 1 for this project requires cutting 400 1-inch hexagons, then assembling them into flowers. Yeah, that's about as exciting as it sounds. But! Once assembled they'll look almost, but not quite, like this:
That's an adaptation of a quilt block I invented two years ago for another project. I happen rather to like it - so much so that I keep coming up with new versions of it - and I think it's a perfect fit for what I have in mind for this project.
Photos always lag when I'm working on something. I'm actually well into the cutting stage right now.
It's too bad my serger caught on fire and died last weekend, though.
***The cat, sitting on my monk cloth, the bastard:
Developing!
