Self Portrait Front

Self Portrait Back

Jacket second at LMQG Seneca SC 2008

My third quilt that was not square. One of my best lessons learned came when I tried to make a border of one inch strips. The fish were great as was the background. What exactly was I going to do with this neat looking quilt. Almost three years passed before I designed a jacket to fit the square in the middle of the quilt. Never give up on a good design save it for a rainy day. I found the perfect batik to make a yoke in the back of the jacket. I had plenty of the ultra suede so I used it to continue the sea weed into the yoke. I think of garments as sculptures that are made to be seen from every angle. On the front I continued the sea weed and added a dragon fly, one of the few times I have used a design that came with my machine, RIDLEY RIGGED of course. The whole jacket was quilted in a wave design. Because the dragon fly was metallic I added a little metallic stitch in the ditch next to the binding. The batting is silk and the lining is a batik.