After experimenting with printing from real mushroom halves and thread on an inked-up Gelli printing plate, I had many extra prints. Several were used in two earlier quilts, Follow and Signals from the Earth, and it was time to clean up the studio. I moved the remaining prints around and pieced them together, improvising the rest of the quilt as I went. Brown is so literal when using mushrooms as a theme, but the green velvet I had dyed and green embroidery thread seemed to brighten it up.
Mushroom Connection
15.75"w x 28"h (40 cm x 71 cm)
Hand-dyed cotton and velvet; linen; monotypes and monoprints from mushrooms and thread; machine pieced; embroidered and hand quilted
Details:
They may connect to each other and to the trees, but I think they are also talking to us.
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