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| Death Eating Cornbread, 60" x 64", 1994 Each time I sew a quilt (they are machine stitched, then hand quilted), I try something new. I learned in this quilt that I could "draw" with stitches on the solid material in the design. When It was completed, I decided to see what would happen if I had it dry cleaned. Bad decision on several counts. The process lightened the batik fabric so it no longer matched the solid dark red fabric. About the title: It was a family joke. When we left some of the family reunions, one member of my family would usually say something like, "Aunt Ida looks awful! She looks like Death Eating Cornbread." We would laugh (the name was changed to protect the guilty). In the batik pattern there is what looks like a skull with hushpuppy cornbread pieces in its mouth...consequently, the name. |
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