Artist Statement
This is the first time I have put a design on the back of a quilt. (Imagine
that!) I actually thought of making it a reversible quilt, since I liked the
back so much, but with the sleeve and label in the mix, I gave up on that
idea.
To me, color and its absence are a fitting description of the Cosmos.
Techniques & Materials
I found several pieces of Judy Robertson's beautiful hand-dyed fabrics in
my stash and combined those with some other hand-dyes and commercial batiks.
The gradation of blacks to grays in the smaller, background checkerboard was
harder to come up with. Some of it was cut out of hand dyed pieces and others
were a combination of different blacks and grays I had. I used the pieced
checkerboard techniques I teach in my "Improving the Checkerboard" class.
Photo by Mark Frey