Art Quilt: Lunacy

I'm continuing the exploration of this form of sewing and cutting and joining I started the beginning of the month with some Small Pieces.

Thinking about circles, and instead of hunting around the studio for the right size of bottle, jar, or yogurt container to trace around and cut out by hand, I finally bought [Amazon Associates link] a Fiskar's circle cutter for fabric. It is basically a template of half circles from 2" to 12" circles (although it adds a quarter inch seam allowance so the circles will be that much larger), and comes with a small rotary cutter housed in a nice little grip that fits into slots in the template. You fold the fabric, (tape it down to your cutting mat), arrange the template on top, slot in the knife and cut. There are some good videos online for it.

BUT always order an [Amazon Associates link] extra blade in these cases. My cutter came with a DULL blade, which was frustrating, so I changed it out and it worked fine (okay, with a tiny bit of trimming with an embroidery scissors). The whole arrangement is somewhat pricey for what it is, however, I have always liked an excuse to try and learn about new tools and materials.

Back to the quilt.

In Blink-Ink, a print magazine, my tiny story, “Feminism and the Moon,” was published in Issue #46, 2021, based on an interaction I had years earlier with my then young daughter, which I will reprint here.

My daughter pulls the curtain aside and stares at the rising moon as it shines in full through the dark glass. “It shouldn’t be called the Man in the Moon.” I wait, looking at the surface from a distance. “It should be the Dude in the Moon.” My head falls. I’ve failed.

This quilt holds the Woman in the Moon, but fractured. Or Cubist-style: a view from all sides flattened into one plane.