I had a hard time with "sketch" because I never make sketches. But I doodled around with this idea, a design I have toyed with in the past with my daily collages. I used the second and third sketches on the top row for my piece.
For a long time I have been intrigued with the idea of stitching directly onto canvas, because the stitching line would become so important. This was an opportunity to do something very different from what I had ever done in the past, yet it reflected some elements of my previous work.
The solid black was composed of selvages, which I have used a lot in the past. And the very dense stitching reminds me of my sew-off squares, which I have used in many previous projects.
I like the fact that the canvas bulges and ripples in the unstitched areas, and that the stitched areas aren't totally flat (you can't really see that from the photos). The detail shot below shows the scribble pattern of stitching, and if you were to look at the back of the quilt, this is exactly what the solid black shape looks like on the back.
I have been using the International Threads quilts as experiments, ways to try out in small scale what I might have already been thinking of. This one was so exciting that I suspect I will be doing it again soon on a larger quilt.
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