2005

This piece started with the three vertical pieces which appear to be floating in the center. I found these pieces in my scrap drawer, and saw that they had once been a single piece, but I had torn it into these three separate pieces. I couldn't remember why, and obviously whatever the idea was, it didn't work, because they'd ended up as scrap. On my design wall I played with these, "auditioning" other pieces of cloth for quite some time before I found the right combination.

1999

This piece was a gift from the dyeing faries!

One afternoon I was dyeing something else (don't remember now what it was), and had some left-over dye. I slapped it on a couple pieces of cloth that I'd wrapped for arashi shibori. One of the pieces had been previously dyed, and in the other I used all the little bits of my leftovers. At the time, I thought of them as "lost pieces" -- didn't really expect them to be very interesting.

Imagine my surprise when after washing, I had two deep, rich pieces of cloth which even liked each other! I kept the piecing simple, and set the shibori off with a bit of bright blue.