This quilt first started from seedlings. Flowers were grown in my garden, harvested, and combined with other natural and organic dyeing materials to create “My Printed Garden.” This piece was dyed using the eco-printing technique with the flowers of Marigolds, Hollyhocks, Cosmos, Hopi sunflower seeds, Dyers Coreopsis, Onion skins, and Indigo for the backing and border. The center square on the quilt's backing was dyed with marigolds and indigo using eco-printing and a Shibori folding technique.
“Shoes Too Big to Fill”
Collaboration with Printmaker Eliza Frensley
“Shoes Too Big to Fill” was a collaboration quilt created with printmaker Eliza Frensley. The format was chosen as an effective way to combine Eliza's two-dimensional design skills and mine in 3D construction and natural dyes. This piece combines eco-printed logwood chips, screen-printed mordants, and an outlet to conceptually focus on memory and trauma recognition, attempting to express identity awareness.
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Marigold flowers and cochineal bugs were printed using the eco-printing technique on 100% cotton fabric. Once eco-printed, the waste of the used flowers and insects was added to a dye pot to extract the leftover pigment. Combining these resulted in an orange color used to dye the border and back of the quilt.
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Iron mordant, aluminum mordant, and various combinations of the two were screen-printed onto cotton fabric and dyed in Buckthorn, also known as Persian berries. The image printed is a rough depiction of microscopic plant cell structures and formations used to connect organic imagery and subject to the natural material of the dye.