Size: approx 12" x 12"
The theme for this art quilt was "Inner Animal".
When I started thinking about my inner
animal I thought of a timid mouse. My
husband, however, cheered me up and said it wasn’t true. I used to
be a synchronized swimmer (right through university) and I still have
swimming dreams. They’re like flying dreams because I can breath
under water.
So the dolphin idea was born. It
started out as a boring purple dolphin on this piece of hand-dyed
fabric that I was saving. It sat like that. Boring, boring, boring;
not a very happy dolphin!
After a while I decided it was time to
play. The swirls were born out of a variegated pink and blue rayon
thread. Still boring. I opened up the latest issue of Quilters
Newlsetter and there in the back “photo finish” was the
most beautiful quilt with paisley appliques on it called “Open up
Your Dream Flower”. So I filled in the spaces with paisley designs
in lots of colours. I doodled with my Tsukineko ink pens as I went.
More detail, and more colour.
Suddenly my dolphin was having fun
again!
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