It's STILL DRYING.  (In real time, and I started doing these posts 13 days ahead of when I posted them here!)

So, let's look at something else I've been working on, shall we?

No, no - that's not mine - it's Salvadore Dali's Down the Rabbit Hole. (Side note: I've always found this version of Alice's rabbit mildly terrifying. That looks like a rabbit that's really, really ticked about being late.  Not to mention, both the insect and the rabbit are like, a million times bigger than Alice - and I like things to be wee -  compared to me not the reverse. )

That said, I find the colouring in this painting amazingly beautiful, the fantastical elements thought provoking, and the movement is... wow. I mean, how do you convey movement like that without actually making swooping strokes with your paintbrush?  The guy's a "master" for a reason and I find this piece really inspiring. It's one of my favourites.

So, what does that have to do with me?

You may remember me talking about my little Quilt/Art group that I'm part of  ( BSP calls us "The Drunken Quilter's Society" 'cuz it's 3 friends and I having cocktails and dinner once a month and talking about our work ), well, Drunken Quilters decided that we're going to have a challenge this month. (Just like a real guild!)

We decided that it would be a scrap challenge and that we would each exchange a bag of scraps and ephemera with which we had to produce something for our meeting the next month.  We didn't have to use all of what was in the bag, but we had to use things in it that we've never used before.

This was my bag:


Aside from the lovely bits of fabric including a polyester snow dye (did you even know you could do such a thing? That's the lovely mottled copper and brown peeping out on the upper left hand side) and some really interesting rust-dyed fabric which practically yelled at me about what to do with it (does fabric ever yell at you to be used in a certain way?), there is Lutradur (eep!), Japanese paper (which I've also never used) and BEADS in that bag of tricks.  Those of you have been with me for awhile, know that beads are my Waterloo.  Which means, there must be beads in this piece. (Hold me!)

But aside from the things I'm going to use which I don't wish to (lol); when I opened this bag, spread the bits around on my table, and moved them around a bit - Dali's Down The Rabbit Hole popped into my head - something about the way the rust moved through the fabric spoke to me about it.

And so, inspired by Mr. Dali's white rabbit, I decided to make a fantastical flying rabbit who lives in a magical-possibly-dream-world too.



This is what I've got so far...