Have you noticed how quilts can be stubborn little things? If you recall my torn napkin, I had A Idea. It involved cuts ( in felt) and green shoots of (machine embroidered and wired) recovery and was all very clever/ pretentious. But would it be born. No siree. I have a table spread with specially bought fabrics and threads and would they play nicely together? No Ma'am.
And so I went off in a strop to attend to another task, namely finding one specific book in a pile of fifteen packing boxes. At about box five I found the project design sketchbooks I did for my first C&G course. Given I have now just ditched the second C&G course I thought I might as well just chuck those out. But one fell open at a picture of a West African Hunting Jacket a little like this one ( but different) and suddenly I had a new idea.
And then there was the song on the road in the car as I drive home that day. Can you believe Band Aid was as long ago as1984? Or that it could inspire an Eggplant quilt?
So the special fabric is back in a drawer and some alternate fabric is on the desk and looking anxious to be made into a little quilt. Or two or three..... Weird how this inspiration thing works isn't it?
Oh. And I never did find that book.
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And so it goes, in the life of an artist.
There were some serious hair issues in 1984.
What's in one's head and what come out one's hands is often very different. I'm going through a very similar experience with my Eggplant quilt too.
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