SHEENA QUAYLE

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A Strong Reaction

This is an idea I've been 'incubating' for several years, have occasionally experimented with and have recently tried on a Journal Quilt, so I decided to try a larger version.

Recycled cream and white fabrics - wool base (skirt) with layered torn and frayed fabrics - a mixture of various silks, wool, cotton organdie, linen and scrim.  Some aspects of the clothing used, such as the overlocking on the wool skirt edge (and the moth holes!) are retained to illustrate the previous purpose of the pieces.  The wool of the base is slightly felted so I have not bound the edges.  Also I have deliberately left some of the base visible; the layered fabrics do not entirely cover it.  Linen and cotton threads, recucled copper wire, hand and machine sewn, applied copper rivets and plumbing bits.

The whole quilt us treated with a chemical solution/copper items - the copper sometimes breaks through some of the silk fabrics.


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