I had to make something -- and because it's me, it would be quilted == for a young woman I don't know. She had posted a profile of herself in which she used the word "funky" several times. Clearly to her, it's a positive word that she applies to herself. I pondered this for quite a while, and came to the conclusion, that I don't know what "funky" means in today's parlance.
Did I have any fabrics I'd call funky? I wasn't sure. Finally I chose a couple of the same pattern in different colorways -- actually three, the third being only a small piece -- and decided to make the background to the star a dusty pink with a tiny white pin dot -- a very conservative choice. I could have chosen something stronger, say a bile green of magnetic blue and maybe that would have been "funkier" -- but it was beyond my ability to do so. I didn't want something that threatened to bite my hand, chew it up and spit it out. I'm afraid this is as funky as this no longer young quilter can get.
2 comments :
I think the combination of pink and orange is funky :)
When I'm looking for inspiration for my drawing / watercolors,(Like for our emotions swap, or profile swaps) I google > Images and put in the term, I did "funky" and the art designs looked amazingly like your quilt. Sometimes I add the word art. You could google funky quilts and probably come up with a starting point. But I think you did great.
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