1. I started collecting old scissors on a trip to Indiana in 2013, after enviously noting my artist aunt Reva's scissor collection. This forced me to take a class on flash photography, and buy a flash attachment for my camera, in order to accurately photograph my old scissors. That done, the scissors were photoshopped into a polka dot star pattern I designed.
2. On a trip to the Galapagos in 2017, a fellow traveler was always sewing and I spent a couple of hours doing a watercolor of her pin cushion, which I liked a lot. So I printed it onto fabric.
3. I made the mistake of going into Britex Fabrics in SF (before they moved this year), thinking I would only look, and exited with scissor and pin cushion fabrics plus some complimentary blue and white fabric as well. I needed to do something with them.
Once all of the above happened, I thought I'd put all the elements together and make a quilt I could enter into a cool quilt contest. The problem is my craft abilities are inferior to my creative abilities so the finished quilt, being slightly imperfect, would probably never get accepted in a craft quilt contest. Additionally, after photographing the quilt, I transformed it in Photoshop to neatly fill a unified space and find it now looks slightly more warped than it really is. So the only place this quilt will be featured for now is here. It will be live for viewing at my Marin Open Studios this coming May, however.
