Fading Bird Of Paradise

After having worked with rust for all of my other Decay quilts, I took a big turn and chose to portray a faded Bird of Paradise. Why, you must be asking? Because it IS totally different than what I’ve been doing, becazuse there is a large plant just outside my door that is full of fading flowers, and because it truly spoke to me. The colors are still there, only a bit different. The longer the flower ages to more it becomes covered in tiny black dots. Watching the changes my plant goes through has become a daily fascination for me, and as the flowers fade and deay, others are still pushing outward, ready to show their colors. I’ve used batiks and hand dyed fabrics as well as india ink. It is machine pieced, fused and machine quilted.