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Trees and curves

Experimenting with curves and abstract trees and branches. Part of a new quilt for my exhibition with Rebecca Staunton Coffey later in 2024. Lots of hand printed and hand dyed fabrics that, when cut into slivers, made really great trunks and branches - textural and lifted the otherwise flat appearance of each block.
 

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