I is for imaginative.

The winter 2002 issue of Quilting Arts magazine challenged its readers to make a two-sided doll with one side representing the maker's ego and the other side, her alter ego.

My imagination went on high alert! What could I use that would express myself with this doll? In an "ah-ha!" moment, I looked at my stash and found two distinct styles. As I pondered "why?", a poem was born:

soft/frilly and colorful/silly

In your studio, you'll find instant inspiration,

Just come along, and use your imagination.

On one shelf is all that is soft and frilly,

And on the next, the colorful and silly.

Join the soft silk that you hand painted

With ribon and beads, and you'll be elated.

From the next shelf, combine all that is jolly,

And, voilà, a two-sided doll, by golly! 

Okay, so I'm not such a great poet! But here's the doll that's a result of it. Her soft and frilly side is silk fabric I hand painted. She is embellished with hand-painted silk ribbon attached to the background with seed beads.

 

Her colorful and silly side is foundation pieced with six fabrics printed with star motifs. She is decorated with variegated thread that I free-motioned quilted, seed and bugle beads, sequins, and a tiny turtle button "brooch."

She was shown in the summer 2003 issue of Quilting Arts magazine.

She's awesome!