Where to start? Way back when I was making a fire quilt that I wasn't happy with and how I cut it up and made a section into Ashes Ashes and still had pieces left over kicking around the studio? A mini vacation to Cambria, California, a small coastal town where cormorants sat on a rock in the fog all facing in mostly the same direction? And how the two worlds, fire and water, collided and became this quiltlet? I was also studying the new book [Amazon Associates link] Abstract Textiles by Anne Kelly and feeling inspired, although I did not end up using anything from it. The song title from West Side Story may have played into the quilt title, but only subconsciously.
Something's Coming
14"w x 9.5"h (35.5 cm x 24 cm)
Hand-dyed cotton; Japanese woven cotton; letterpress printing; stenciling with black and metallic gold from original drawing; free-motion quilting; hand stitching
Details:
Stenciled with metallic gold, some free-motion stitching below
Stenciled in black as well, free motion waves
Waiting for a tsunami? hurricane? election? Or, maybe something good, like the song? Perhaps the warm sun so they can dry their wings.
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