The Look Up, Look Up Quilt

🌌 The Look Up, Look Up Quilt 🌌

This one was inspired by the Northern Lights and the polar landscape particularly Svalbard.

One thing about the Lights that photography can't capture is their movement. The colors might look brighter in photos but they way they dance in person is, for me, what makes them so magical which is what I wanted to try and capture with this quilt and if you look at it for a bit, the contrasting shapes and lines do make it appear to move.

The colors of the lights were dyed by myself using melting snow to apply the dye resulting in unique patterns and colors. The other fabric is from thrifted cotton sheets.

Machine pieced and hand quilted. Approx 60 inches in diameter

You can see more of my quilting here and the rest of my art here

here’s a little comparison for people who say engagement hasn’t gotten that bad and anyone who complains is ungrateful.

these are two posts from my first go round on tumblr circa 2014-2017, my most popular gifset of all time

& a text post

notice how the ratio is about even on likes to reblogs?

here’s from this go around, my most popular gifset

and my most popular fic

do you see how that’s discouraging?

i love being on this site. i love the little community i’ve found and the people who follow me and the mutuals i’ve made friendships with and the mutuals that i’m still getting to know. i love it. but at a certain point it’s hard to justify spending so much time on works that get bad engagement.

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