"Nope, He's Not in There" and "Peacockiness"
One of my son's is an Entomologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum so any time I find an insect that interest me (which is often) I make up a design for a quilt.
This piece is titled "Blue Atlas". I used a photo of an Atlas Moth, the moth was actually collected by my other son, Lee. I was trying to follow the markings on the moth and decided I didn't like what was happening. I didn't like the fabric I had used for the body as well.
Soooo! I started over and used this beautiful blue hand-dyed fabric. I then decided that I would fussy cut pieces out of a printed fabric to make the markings.
I generally make my image and then decide on the background. It was a no-brainer, in my opinion, to use black. I also had some hand-dyed thread in the colors opposite of the color wheel to the blue. I decided to hand quilt the black background with big stitchs using moths motifs.
More on "Peacockiness" in a later post.!
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