Mary McIntosh
FRAGMENTATION
Inspiration
The original idea was to see how much you could 'fragment' a piece of quilting and for it still to hang together. I had a piece of breakdown printed fabric in my stash which had the look of weathered plaster. The idea was to use this to quilt quite heavily and then 'fragment' it by cutting out lots of sections and re-stitching them together. However, I did not like the result (looked like a wet dish rag) so overdyed to get more colour and mounted on to a black background for contrast. Should really be called 'Rescued Failure'.
Materials and techniques
White cotton fabric. Breakdown printed, overprinted with a flour and water paste screen. Over dyed. Stitched and sections cut out (fragmented). Stitched to a black cotton background and the fragments reapplied. All machine stitched.
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The original idea was to see how much you could 'fragment' a piece of quilting and for it still to hang together. I had a piece of breakdown printed fabric in my stash which had the look of weathered plaster. The idea was to use this to quilt quite heavily and then 'fragment' it by cutting out lots of sections and re-stitching them together. However, I did not like the result (looked like a wet dish rag) so overdyed to get more colour and mounted on to a black background for contrast. Should really be called 'Rescued Failure'.
Materials and techniques
White cotton fabric. Breakdown printed, overprinted with a flour and water paste screen. Over dyed. Stitched and sections cut out (fragmented). Stitched to a black cotton background and the fragments reapplied. All machine stitched.
Click on image to enlarge