Quilt No. 138
October 2021
What does a city look like during a power blackout? What about a quilted city?
I’ve always wanted to do a skyline of a blackout. When I was given the gift of a package of “Stargazers” fabric (Robert Kaufman), I knew I had the brilliant starry sky fabric that could hold its own against the stark blackness of the unlit buildings. For the darkest buildings I pillaged the black velvet I’d been hoarding in the back of the craft closet. A sliver moon was added in with various pieces of cast-off jewelry and wool roving along the horizon. The tilt of the horizon? Well, that’s pretty much how we feel when our beloved and mostly taken for granted electricity is denied to us.
