The MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Art) does a community exhibition once every 10 years called “A Foot in the Door“. Anyone can enter a piece of art in nearly any medium as long as it fits in a box that’s 12x12x12 inches. I can’t pass up an opportunity to exhibit something at the MIA! This is a detail of my piece for the exhibition. I won’t show you the whole thing until the show opens, that just seems like a spoiler. This is made from my hand-dyed cotton fabric and embroidered with perle cotton thread. (Each of those squares is 1 inch, so you have a sense of scale.)
I love alphabet samplers. This scrap of fabric was a remnant I found last fall and I have been waiting to make something fun with it. It is a tan colored cotton, which is coated with a fine layer of metallic gold, so it’s slightly shimmery in person. I decided to to a tiny little alphabet sampler with a goldfish. And when I say tiny, here’s a photo for scale…