When is a quilt finished?
Quilting is always open to recycling and reworking. These fish first appeared on the ‘Fish Cube’–a 6-sided version of an aquarium that I enjoyed putting together.
The Fish cube missed something essential about quilting, however. It did not have a softness that invited you to feel the smoothness of the silk. This winter, I went through some of my leftover work to see what needed reworking. The three pillows are a big improvement on the old format. The silk paintings are not complex enough, and the quilting was not elaborate enough to qualify as a sculptural piece. They are much better this way.