This quilt, Ebb & Flow 10, was completed in 2005, and appeared in the solo exhibition I had that year at the Australian Embassy in Washington DC. It is one of a series of quilts with this title, the theme of which is how various aspects of Life change constantly, ebbing and flowing with highs and lows, as with the restless ocean tides.

Although I had been very keen on it during the making, between beginning the quilting and finishing off the binding, somehow some reservations about it developed in my mind. Ideally some of the murky green would have been a perfect binding – but there was none left – this piecing takes a lot of fabric, it can be surprising. Next possibility was a turn back facing, but I had fallen love with a hot pink with fine black pin dots on it, and put that on – I thought it looked good,at the time. But it didn’t seem to attract much interest at the solo or the another public airing here late last year.

Recently an interesting exhibition opportunity for this quilt came up, and I realised I only had gallery shots, not suitable for submitting on cd for jurying. So some new pics would need to be shot – and just before my appointment with Eduardo the photographer, I determined to change the binding on this one. Rummaging in the cupboard I found a mauve fabric, bought only in the past year but one I had still not been inspired to cut into (something occasionally happens between the shop and the workroom) It’s a difficult colour, perhaps, and I am not really sure why I bought it (for the challenge?) – but anyway it turned out to be perfect for this quilt’s new binding…. see photo below. Only a small change, but it makes a big difference. Oh, and IMHO, does not change the quilt sufficiently to re-date it or re-title it, either!