I made nine squares riding to Vermont to snowblade.
White and black lines on the sides give it RHYTHM.
Play-clothes
Patchwork 1976, by Louise Bartholomew, Pottersville NY
5 x 7' cotton carpet made in 8" squares of her childrens' outgrown play clothes. The color is hilariously exuberant, like the household.
< I ShiRReT in stripes.
I love to watch the colors go together.
I lay out the squares on the painting studio floor.
I make the color POP.
I lace them together and add a border.
Louise McCrady's "patchwork" is actually worked in rows + border, changing needles.
Ice Cream sundae rug, cotton, four feet,1972, LadyMcCrady. My first attempt at ShiRRéT, age 16 teenager. It was featured in American Home Crafts magazine, editors Rachel Newman and Jane Luddecke. Louise and I went
to a fabric cutting factory in Soho NYC in 1970 and
rescued a designer flower
print from the floor. The owner sent us to
the Broome Street Bar for a 'Welcome Back Burger'. I later moved there for 17 years. My rug looks ruffley but it lays
flat. Damp blocking helps.
The story of My
High School Skirts. cotton. 30x30 inches.
I lived in West Hartford 17 years. Weejuns, Brogues, pink flower Pappagallos. I made colorful skirts. Recently, I was invited to put a Shirret in a
Texas traveling show. Deadline looming, it needed 2 B easy to make, easy to mail,
but intricate looking.
I cut up my skirts.
I added squares and the zig zags between. It was contemporary without a border. The image it made was still a question. It still had potential
to be many things. An artwork is hypothetical - it's an experiment that doesn't have an answer.
But
this is a small carpet, a Shirret Quilt for toes. So I added the border.
Granny
Square look-alike - in ShiRReT.
Hall runner of 8 x 12" patchwork pieces 8' long.
Go, Gypsy - I make 8" squares
