Would you like a refreshment?
For us quilters colours
are something we play and experiment with, something we almost drink in buckets. After
working some time on my mother's slumber-quilt all done in Victorian fabrics; I feel the
urge to drink new colours; fresh and sparkling new peaces of fabric throwing themselves
without scruples into the sewing machine to unite and become another quilt. It's
energizing to get away from precision, blocks and demands on perfection and work in total
freedom instead. Erika Carter as well as others sews the patches directly on to the front
where they remain screamingly beautiful, raw edges showing and all.
Sue Benner throws paint on her fabric canvas before cutting photos of flowerbeds and
gardens into small squares.
Then she puts handdyed squares of fabric where each colour
fits in the best with the photo fragments. Technically simple, but demanding great skills
in creativity combined with an eye for the inspirational sources of nature and the ability
to harvest from sources within oneself. They thirst for the colours they find out there,
maybe they channel some female fury into their work when needed. Would you like a refill?
Drink something you never tasted before!
