A selection of my quilts from 1985 to the present, varying in scale, processes and subject matter.
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Loose Using, 2001
34" x 28"
Stenciled and commercially available cotton fabrics; Lonni Rossi's original cotton fabrics. Machine pieced, hand appliquéd and reverse appliquéd, hand quilted. Photo credit: Karen Bell.
Part of the "Dancing Between the Semicolons" project.
Language provides a rich inspiration for my quilts. Here, the words themselves become the major decorative element. It was an opportunity to take a juicy quote--in this case, Ernest Hemingway's "All our words through loose using have lost their edge"--and play around, graphically. The grammar of the phrase "loose using" is odd, but it's so expressive; it could refer to anyone who twists the language to his own less-than-honest purposes. It seemed a perfect fit for Lonni Rossi's "Dancing Between the Semicolons" challenge, inspired as it was by the reaction to a politician's evasions.