TINA SLIPPER

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As the Dawn Breaks Through, the Sunbirds Awake

It started with a play day at my house.  My friends and I took a simple bird shape, added a tail and began to play.  We experimented with discharge paste, using both positive and negative images of the bird and using freezer paper as a mask.  We went our separate ways to work with the resulting cloth.

The sun was shining through my window and it was hot hot hot!  I began to picture the images as Mexican sunbirds.

Finally I felt the quilt was done.  As the dawn breaks through, the sunbirds awake...

I used a lot of decorative thread plus beads and sequins and lovely thick wobbly wools and sari ribbons and braids for the tails.  I added a deep, dark pieced border and painted it with white sparkly paint top depict the sun's rays.  As the quilt began to tell me its story I added more sequins, beads and shiny metallic threads.  Who says less is more?


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