In You Can’t Go Home Again, fellow “Twelve” Karen has written about returning, as an adult, to the home you grew up in. Somehow you see things differently. With recent events, I have been recalling visits to my grandmother’s house. In my lifetime, she lived in a four locations but the modest decor rarely changed. Amongst her wall ornaments was a simple black and gold cut-out stencil – a kind of optical illusion that I remember squinting at as a child. I transferred the image to fabric using Shiva paintstiks with a freezer paper stencil. What do you see?
And yes, I did consider using this as the basis of my “illumination” 12×12 quilt which is due on 1 August (US time). After trying out some quilting (click on the first version above) I decided against it. I quilted around the “blobs” (which is all the Laundry King can see) and experimented with some “grid” quilting but the remaining puffiness bugs me. Besides, plain black fabric catches lint and dust and is a pain to photograph…
Terri says
I can’t make out what the design is. Any hints?
Brenda says
It’s too soon for hints! but come back and look in the morning…
lola says
It is a siloutte of a lady looking towards the floor,
very easy to see once you have found it.
Paula, the quilter says
The Laundry King must be very left-brained. I am almost balanced left/right brain and once I covered 2 of them with my hand the woman jumped off the page at me. Three of them must have been confusing my brain.
Deborah says
I’m squinting… can’t make it out.
Kristin L says
I saw nothing but blobs and then all of a sudden the face was there and now I can see nothing else. I really like your background quilting on the first one, but I suspect the effect is different in real life where the puffiness is more apparent.
Leslie Todd says
It’s weird, I couldn’t see it until I looked at the rust colored one. Then it popped out. I guess the others had so much contrast it confused my brain.
Helen Conway says
It took a while but – yup, there she is!!
Amy says
I must’ve looked at it a million times in NZ but it wasn’t until now I saw the face!
Chantel says
nup, can’t see it I knew what it was cos I got told when I was a kid too… but no idea. Maybe it’s too early in the morning….
Diane says
Ooh! I see a face in silhouette — the cheekbone, mouth, long nose, expanse of forehead… What an interesting image!