Frustration is Glioblastoma
So this is my latest project. I am so happy to have finished quilting it and to get it off the long arm. Talk about over quilting a quilt! This quilt comes off the "reject" pile... I made it for an exhibit but it was not accepted. Much has happened to it since it's rejection. It hadn't been quilted at that point, and it look a bit different. It started out just as "Frustration", it had multiple colors in the background (see picture below). I was trying to convey that when frustration hits me it takes over, and covers whatever else is going on. After it was rejected I set it aside to work on other things, however, I knew I wanted to put it on the long arm to work on my control and other long arm skills. Last fall my sister was diagnosed with Glioblastoma (a form of cancerous brain tumor). I spent the winter traveling back to NY to spend a week with her every month. Talk about frustration... she was frustrated with losing her abilities, I got frustrated for her and for the lack any good treatments for this devastating disease. Anyhow, I decided to change the background colors to all grey to represent the brain (gray matter). I knew I could do it with thicken dye. So I scrapped gray thicken dye over the background and let it batch. I needed to wash the thicken dyes out before I quilted it, so I stabilized the edges and hoped for the best. I had one area that needed repair. Then it was time for quilting. I did all the background (gray) areas first and then went back to do the red. I ran into some problems with that idea, but it was a learning opportunity (as this whole quilt has been). After quilting it, I decided it might look better if I cropped it. Not wanting to be wasteful, I now have two quilted bags and a whole slew off eyeglass cases or rotary cutter holders. Anyone need an eyeglass case?
Frustration is Glioblastoma before, when it was just Frustration...
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