I finished an odd/cool quilt . It’s all female figures I drew because I had a door handle fall off when I was figuring out what to put in the center squares! I watched a YouTube a million times to get the door knob back on. I felt so proud of myself and more independent when the door was working again.
The ancient female figures are also about long ago independence. They were found on rocks in places people tended to migrate near like rivers. I think of petroglyphs as a precursor to newspapers. They may have communicated to others what people did to survive in the area. People had to find food and defend themselves in Anasazi times. So I made this odd quilt to hang on my wall to remind myself to try to do home maintenance myself.
I modified each petroglyph I found online to avoid having copyright problems. when I was figuring out what to put in the center squares.
I took a Karen Stone class with the traditional big guild called “Wild Women don’t get the Blues.”
It involved paper piecing the triangles and I thermofax screened the petroglyphs using acrylic paint.
I printed some cotton canvas in January. I used common native plants like creosote, brittle bush, dogweed, big bursage and triangle leaf bursage, and even eucalyptus and the invasive African sumac. A friend had given me a kit for a quilted purse so I substituted my botanical print fabric for the 5 inch square fabrics in the kit and redesigned the quilt with my fabrics. The lining was purchased at Cactus Quilts. Very fun project!
