Artist Statement: Hand and machine stitching scraps, letting your mind wander brings peace and meditation to hours of relaxing trying to find the stitches that make the rusty birds sing. A bee flying into the circle of light. Shapes and grids flow with the stitches.  Rust, turquoise, red violet, blue violet scraps, seed stitches with variegated threads combined with free-motion quilting.  Adding French Knots that remind me of flowers 

Materials & Techniques: Scraps of my rust dyed fabric combined with pieces of hand dyed & screen printed fabric.  Hand stitched with my dyed variegated #8 Pearle cotton thread.  Seed stitches, French Knots, gold paint, some free-motion quilting.  Piped binding with small drapery beads, stitched with a blanket stitch. 

Dimensions: 14" x 18"

Photographer: Susan Smith