This quilt came about in a roundabout way. I was restless. The only real cure for me is studio time. After rummaging through my multiple scrap bags I came up with a small black piece for a background, a scrap of thin canvas dropcloth for the backing, and multicolored bits for color. Using [Amazon Affiliate link] Sulky Ultra Solvy over all of them allowed me to quilt down the tiny pieces. Sew, rinse. dry. iron.
It looked like confetti. Or a celebration, which I thought might be the title. I had an idea for the form with rectangles making a square window in the centers, but when I put it together I heard the Spanish word for where or to where, “Adónde” in my mind. The enormity of peaceful citizens and non-citizens alike getting picked up and taken far from their homes, to who knows where, is ever present in the news. But I did not like the holes in the centers, visually. In the trimmings was one leftover piece with a cat that I had made into a Spoonflower pattern, “Pat the Cat.” Perhaps a connection, a metaphor. Cats, then. But I only had one piece. I used a stencil instead, one I had made during COVID and used for “Herding Cats.” The neighbor cat is here sometimes. Sometimes elsewhere. Where does he go? The whole block worries about him.
Not quite the same as worrying about the people, I know.
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