I belong to a regional SAQA group called SAQA Western Canada. About 30 of our members are participating in a project to create quilts featuring fossils from the Burgess Shale. Each piece will be 2 feet by 2 feet. There are close to 2,000 Burgess Shale fossils, so we each picked a different one for our piece. The exhibit will travel and is intended to be viewed by children aged 5 to 12 years, so we are encouraged to make our pieces colorful and fun.
I picked Orthrozanclus reburrus – a tiny grazing animal covered with beautifully-shaped curved spines. Soon after I signed up for this project, I found a blue fabric that’s covered with dinosaur fossils, that I’m using for the background. I’ve fused the head and body, and am working on the spines – there are 33 of them! I’ll outline the pieces with zigzag stitching.
As always, I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday. Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.
The background fabric is just perfect. This will be amazing when complete. Nice.
Very cool! Perfect find with the background fabric. Looking forward to seeing this colourful creature all finished!
What fun and who doesn’t love a dinosaur! What a lucky find for the background fabric too.
The kids are going to love this one!
What a fabulous project:)
It’s really pretty cute in those colors. And what a perfect background. I love the idea to do the fossils.
Terry that is so cool! love it!
Very cool! I showed it to my three year old son and he said it was beautiful 🙂