KATE DOWTY

Cracking Up

I love working with colour and get a real buzz from the way that colours react with each other.  I wanted my thin, blue line to leap out from a background field of colour.  Hoarded offcuts of fabric become my palette of colours.  When held roughly into place with stitch they make a very textured surface.

 


For this piece small snippets of fabric shading from deep burgundies and purples through reds to orange with a tiny amount of bright blue were arranged and stitched to make five long strips.  These strips were then tied together, with various coordinating yarns, to achieve the required width.



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