Discharge Nine Patch
33″ x 33″
Discharged Shibori dyed cotton sewn with seams turned out with loose threads. Machine quilted on domestic Bernina with fine metallic thread.
African Violets
51″ x 56″
Discharge shibori dyed and printed cottons. Sewn with inset fabric in seams and loose strings. Quilted with metallic opalescent thread on domestic Bernina. Quilt National 1999.
Self Portrait
34″ x 41″
In the collection of Mr. and Mrs Waltzing-Parke
Black cotton whole cloth freehand discharged with painted bleach mixture. I thought the dribbled bleach droplets enhanced the overall effect. Machine quilted on domestic Bernina Activa 130. Have you ever felt you are so out of place, so strange, so different from everyone around you that you might as well be an alien from another planet?
Rosanna Lynne Welter 