Inspired by:
* Trinny and Sussanah and their "Sex Bomb" episode - a glorious romp with mutton dressed as lamb
* My friend, Vicki, describing blue or green eyeshadow as "mouldy eyelids"
* My husband's great aunt - a wild and wonderful woman who never stopped dying her hair an extraordinary and rather alarming shade of orange. She remains an inspiration.
* my first ever viewing of "Mame" last Sunday.
Definitely NOT inspired by any of my red-headed friends, including our luscious ginger Twelves!
13 comments:
She is just fabulous!!!! This could be me in 10 years! LOL It is so hard to quilt faces and I think you have done a fabulous job. I will never wear blue eyeshadow again.
Wow -- what a strong and engaging portrait! The colors and tones are perfect and your stitching to define her is perfect. Beautifully, beautifully done!
I've followed this blog almost from the beginning and never felt the urge to comment before.
But I just love this piece.
Love the inspiration, love the finished quilt.
She has SO much character.
This is fantastic Kirsten, she has such a personality, I feel like I know her. The stitching really makes this piece wonderful
What a wonderful face! It could have been a cartoon, even a little mean, what with the overdone eyeshadow and the desperate hair, but instead it is quite a loving depiction of an aging character. Probably reminds each of us of someone we love. The seeming effortlessness of the drawing/stitching is masterful. Love, love, love this.
Love her!!!!! Is she for sale?
Ditto what everyone has said! She is fantastic. So well drawn and painted. So perfectly stitched. So much character. So much empathy. She is utterly perfect in her humanity.
Oh my goodness....I love her! I totally would not have picked this as yours. You did a fantastic job with her.
Wow!! Wow!!
How odd is it that Terri's quilt is called P'Tina and yours is Patricia Tina? That has GOT to win the award for Most Amazing Title Coincidence.
She is absolutely gorgeous and your stitching brings her to life in wonderful ways. Wow!!!!!!!!!
Pat postively exudes character!
She is real. I think she was, in her heyday, a rather raunchy ballet dancer from the east end of London. She has had four husbands ( all of whom met tragic ends after being loved by her very much) and one famous lover about whom she is teasingly discrete. She emigrated to follow her grandchildren and now sits smoking on a verandah telling tales and shocking the parents but mesmerising the grandchildren. Occasionally she still tries her plie against the verandah ballustrade!
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