The Final Straw

Q. Why would you stitch all that plastic onto a perfectly good quilt?
A. Why would we throw it into the sea?
Walking on the ammonite pavement at Lyme Regis reflecting on plastic waste (now finally front-page news) and the amount of damage humankind has done to the planet in the relatively brief time we’ve been here.

Materials: Cotton fabric, procion dye, fabric paint, plastic straws

Methods: hand dyed fabric discharge-printed with original Thermofax designs and found objects; simple piecing; machine quilting

Size: 47cm x 109cm

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