Residual Image Quilt

This quilt was made entirely from existing cotton materials and constructed and quilted by hand. The design looks at the intuitive patterns created when old clothing is disassembled and the pattern pieces arranged into a new cloth.

Some of the layered and fragmented shapes are recognisable, but their former structure has been re-imagined as a flat landscape of colour and contrast. If you look at it long enough, faux pattern pieces start to appear in the negative space. Sew them back together and they'd probably make a very interesting shirt. In fact, an artifact of one of the shirts that became this quilt was kept in the design – a functional pocket.


Thrifted cotton shirts and sheets, wool batting, hand stitching, 2020.