100 Day Project - Day 11
The Hundred Day Project - Day 11
deconstructed serendipity diary
Kantha quilt scraps
Vintage
kantha quilts are made of three to seven layers of cloth, no batting,
held together with kantha stitching: lines of running stitches, hundreds
upon hundreds. One of my favorite things to do is to discover those
hidden textiles. Usually, they are worn, stained or patched, living
another life as warmth-giving layers.
When I remove the
stitching to get at them, I never fail to take a moment to think of the
anonymous hands that put together the original quilt, that threaded the
needle, that made those lines and lines of tiny stitches.
I've
begun a practice of taking a small square of a kantha scrap,
deconstructing it, and stitching each piece to a backing in the order in
which it was stacked together.
This is the record of
three kantha quilts. The top and bottom pieces are the seen layers. The
middle pieces are what was hidden inside. It's all random, what appears
on the inner layers, which part of a pattern, the colors. Serendipity.
Labels: kantha, slow stitching, smallisbeautiful, thehundreddayproject, upcycle
posted by 'Zann @ 10:28 AM
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Patrick's dad took up saxophone 6 months after Patrick died, making our garage 'Patty's Studio'and making music his healing path.
