Sabi Westoby
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Art Quilts

I have been making my own fabrics using paintsticks and creating abstract landscape patterns.  I made a series of small wall hangings using this  technique and on some of these pieces I superimposed images of plants printed on silk organza which were then stitched down.

Teabags have also been used in recent work, as you can see on my blog page.  I like the random colouring of used teabags, with varying depth and pattern.  I felt that the printed images of teasels from a thermofax screen of one of my drawings combined well with the teabags.

Heavy stitching on Khadi paper transforms it to a textile-like quality, perhaps reverting to its roots of cotton rag.   This was the technique I used in Place #1.

And then collaging fabric and paper, combining hand and machine stitching, as in Seedheads, was pure pleasure.

I hope you enjoy looking at these works as much as I did making them.