WIP: Barnswallows challenge part 1

More than a year ago, I accepted a challenge. A few weeks ago, I missed the deadline. So many other things (like work, garden, and family... good things) keep me away from working on my many WIPs.

The challenge was to use the fabrics (in the photo below) and some buttons to create something. There were few parameters... so I let my imagination work away for several weeks.

My first inspiration for this project was from the "Robes of Power" catalogue from an exhibit (from decades ago) at UBC's Museum of Anthropology. So I began to collect buttons. I would attach some of the buttons with thread or yarn and some with fishing line.



I'm still working away on conceptualising the final design, but at this stage, I am quilting three layers (the outside, a middle layer, and the inside) together, by hand.

This is a view from the "outside".

And this, a view from the "inside".

I have much more to do....

It is Wednesday and I am Canadian, so I'm linking to Canada's The Needle and Thread Network, a collective of fibre art bloggers.