The Day before Christmas...

....it was looking like that on our table - not my working table but the dining table

It was so spectacular that I took a thermal image of this still life

to abstract things a little.

 

The table was covered with books, greeting cards, envelopes, 

catalogues, coffee and cookies in the china bowl.

 

The bowl is white but in the thermal image it shows red

with a blue shade

it seems to be warmer than other objects on the table

 

 

The thermal image

 

I went to my orderly room and started to make the little quilt ....

(36 x 27 cm)

and a great disorder

 

 

 

 

 

I read somewhere - if I knew where I would be happy and could

thank the blogger for this idea -

"if you don't really want to make big things just make small"

 

So I took the thermal image and made a quick sketch

without taking measures or anything like that.

Just a few pencil strokes

 

 

 

I cut out the major shapes -

the mug and the bowl.

 

 

 

then I was looking for the right scraps in one of my

scrap bags

The plate and mug are made from hand-dyed fabric

all in the thermal image colours

every scrap top-stitched and free machine quilted.

 

I did, I undid and redid again the binding

 

 

 

 

(till DH was satisfied)

and me, too.

 

I wrote a text on the bottom by machine which says:

 

 

The Day before Christmas at A&D's