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Circular Paradox

Recently, I –at the last minute– participated in a quilt-swap that started on the QuiltArt list, then moved to a Yahoo group. The results of the swap were just posted and I can’t WAIT to get my quilt, and will blog about it when it arrives. But for now, you’ll have to just look at my contribution.

Circular Paradox was inspired by a passage in Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card, a sci fi novel that has been around for a number of years, but was new to me. Even though I thought I wouldn’t be able to participate in the swap, the idea popped into my head for circles and the moon rabbit and planets on a dark blue background and I knew I could get it done in time for the deadline. I’m so happy with the result that I want to make at least one more “circular” quilt, maybe several….. The full shot is above, and I promise one of these days I’m going to get a better digital camera.

The detail shots below were done on my scanner (and hopefully got down-sized in the upload process for those of you on dial-up!), but really show the quilting much better. The background is a commercial print, the nautilus is Bali Fabrics batiks, and the rest are my hand-dyeds. I had a BALL playing with the variegated thread I’ve purchased from Superior Threads.

The Moon Rabbit is from a 2-piece wood puzzle I bought in Japan in 1996. Instead of seeing a man in the moon, the Japanese see a rabbit. Go look. Once you see the rabbit, you’ll wonder how anyone could see a man’s face, since the shapes look a lot more like a rabbit than a face. The rabbit is stitched in Superior’s “Silver” variegated, but it has gold and copper and cool colors in it. I love it because it is a mama and her baby bunny (at the time I only had one son); I’ve always loved rabbits (well, until the voracious hordes savaged my garden in Friday Harbor, but once the foxes moved into our neighborhood that wasn’t such an issue, and they were still cute!).

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