The Selfie Quilt
I don’t do selfies.
They make me cringe.
I am not photogenic and as a complete introvert, seeing myself on camera or front and centre on a video makes me want to crawl in a hole and hide!
So why the heck did I decide that it was a good idea to make a quilt of myself I hear you ask???!
I wanted to try out a new palette, one that only allowed me to use one colour – pink.
In retrospect pink is a very tricky colour to use when it comes to peoples faces. Just a touch too light and everything is washed out and a tad too dark and it looks wrong.
Case in point this shade:
Please note – the dodgy eyebrow that looked like it had been partially shaved off and the completely wrong darker shade that looked like i’d had a nasty accident.
Queue unpicking.
lots of it.
It is usually at this point with anything I make, where mistakes have been made and there is obviously a need to plough some time into the unpicking – that I want to give up. Pack up said project and stuff it in a closet.
I hate mistakes. I hate what feels like wasted time and I often undertake the unpicking whilst very grumpy. Yet, as much as I hate it, it is the mistakes that make me grow.
The Selfie quilt is 96″ x 72″ with 2,341 pieces in 8 different shades of pink. It took around 100 hours to make.