Is it safe? I

This is the first quilt in a series of several. As an Information Management Specialist, I work with content management, collaboration and information security as topics all the time.

This series started with an inspiration given to me. on a work trip, at the end of a (very safe) flight from Houston, Texas, to New York. As we were told to turn of our electronical devices towards the landing, I saw the screen of a monitor in front of me, flash in a computerized way with various colors in greens and blues. The numbers 1s and 0s danced in front of my eyes. Immediately, the idea of a quilt formed in front of me. I know from experience the importance of quickly jotting down ideas and sketches before the ideas disappears, so I grabbed the sketch-/notebook and quickly put the idea to paper before the airhostess urged me to put away my purse...

The result is a quilt series called "Is it safe?" with this one being the first one.

For the main panel, I have created a Thermofax (C) screen with the image of the 1s and the 0s. I used a plain white cotton cloth for the base of the Thermofax printing which is printed using acrylic paints and additional silver paint coats that I used a creditcard and/or a sponge brush to create the effect.

The larger patches with the numbers are painted through a stencil, each patch is ripped into shaped and stitched onto quilt. The rest of the fabrics are Bali batiques and Japanese tie-dyed fabrics.

The quilt is completely hand stitched with various knots and stitches, using a variety of threads which is either commercially spun and dyed, or from a collection of handdyed threads specially collected for this piece. The beads with 1s and 0s are additional elements in the theme and purchased in a Houston beadshop. So are the other beads as well. My custom made twisted cords add to the surface design as well.

Curiosa:

The quilt is entirely hand stitched and embellished during a work trip around the world and has completed one "round" from Oslo-Paris-Singapore-Tokyo-Houston-New York-Oslo, and has been worked on in hotel rooms in every destination. It took a total of 4 weeks to complete, creating several comments from hotel staff in 3 continents.

The quilt was first shown at Carrefour Europeen du Patchwork in Saint Marie-Aux-Mines, France, September 2014.

Also on desplay at 11th Patchwork Meeting Prague, March/April 2017.