Finally finished

Here is a picture of the piece I have been obsessing

aobut over the past three weeks. The title is

"Inua-Spirit in the Wind" I made it for the Fiber

Art Connection of Southern California Challenge "Inua"

The piece is about 22 by 33

, but, as you can see, is free form. I started with

white cloth and used paint sticks to colour it.

The green/black colour represents the colour one

sees in the depths of a solid piece of clear ice.


Here is a close-up showing the intense FMQ'g, and the holes that have been cut through the piece. Each hole was faced, cut and finishe don the wrong side. I then put on the back using an envelope technique. This means that I sewed the fabric , right sides together over the front, cut a slit in it and turned the whole thing to the back. I then cut out the holes and hand stitched the backing around the holes

Here is another close-up, again showing the dense FMQ'g.

This was a very intense piece. Once I had started, it was

as though I was possessed. I had to work it through.

I had tried a similar piece a couple of years ago, and it

went nowhere. I think I was too rigid in trying to make

my quilting lines regular and precise. I had to loosen up

quite a bit to get the effect I wanted. But I found it

very difficult to make the work look loose

and un-planned. A lesson to me.