This second piece also comes from the Scully series, and when I finished it I thought... no...(the blue isn't part of the quilt, it just happened to be lying on a piece of blue when I took the image).
Oddly enough, the issue was balance, again. I was worried about the size of the stitch in the bottom section, and whether the whole piece wasn't just overly fussy, to boot. So I did what I tell everyone else to do in this situation : I slept on it. No, it wasn't any better overnight. Which was unfortunate: there's a lot of stitch in there, and unripping was the only thing I could possibly do. Turns out I was wrong. I'm going to leave it as it is. Why? I hear you ask... well, because I had laid it out on the sofa, and happened to look at it across the room...and from a distance, it looks fine. In fact, that's something else I tell everyone else to do... usually by putting the piece on the floor and standing up to look at it. I really should take my own advice, now and again.
Note the circle in the bottom right: yes, you guessed it, it's the trimmed off circle from the piece at the top of the page. Waste not, want not, and all that.
As well as the Scully influence, I think this piece has echoes of some of the work of the Glasgow Girls, notably the shapes in the upper section, and the stitch that supports it. This series seems to be taking me to surprising places...I'm not a huge fan of Art Nouveau, though as I get older, my taste seems to get broader. Maybe I'm just less judgemental...who knows. I wouldn't have expected it to appear in my work, though, which is perhaps foolish. Everything appears in the work eventually.
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