PERCEPTION IS REALITY
Choosing what to see and what to understand.
Numbers, punctuation and matchstick quilting make for lots of fruity language.
PERCEPTION IS REALITY - front, 1310mm x 1290mm Prima Homespun Solids, walking foot matchstick shadow quilting
I decided very early on that foundation paper piecing was the best solution (for me) to creating wordy quilts. Among my go to fonts if FUTURA - a classic 1920s Bauhaus font from the Bauer font foundry. What better way to create quotes and inspirational sayings than to create paper pieced blocks?
Other people, much more experienced than I could have used raw edge appliqué - sure would have been a quicker process - but the inner masochist in me (at the start of this project) decide to design each character from scratch, piece each one and then is quilt with VERY narrow straight lines. Adding a secret shadow message in the quilting was a natural choice - right?
By the end of the first six vertical inches of quilting quilters remorse set in. What was I thinking? Why would I? Time to settle in and look for the meditative opportunity in this quilt.
Embrace the more than a mile (I measured the thread I used, just shy of 1600metres) of stitches, just in the quilting, and the outcome is surprisingly satisfying.
The subject is what the viewer chooses to see - a collection of numbers and punctuation, or the inferred swearing, or the censored sanitised version of language we use everyday - viewers choice. I used each and every word, and many more as I plugged away on this project, but I’d do it again in a second - I love this quilt.
PERCEPETION IS REALITY - back, shadow quilting - lower case FUTURA words
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