Moch Ness Monster: Quilted Art Wall Hanging and 48 similar items

This collage was well on the way on the development stage, with the background, beach and green sea, but got totally sidetracked by the wrong foreground! I had put in a dock, with a boat tied on to it and had even sewn it in. However, it was so angular and somehow out of place among the jungle surroundings, that I picked it out entirely. Eventually I came up with the sea serpent, with a light brown back, and stitched in scales, with its long neck and head looking back. And after I had gotten that far, a customer at the fabric store where I work brought up some fabric that was like liquid gold, and coppery-red on the reverse side, and was so glad that she did not buy the whole piece! When I took the leftover piece home, I immediately knew it was the creature’s skin, with both sides coming into the picture! A metallic thread and a scallop stitch provides the scales. And even that needed a bit more: the selvedge of this piece has a gold fringe, and that, along with a bit of the copper side folded over became the ridge down from the head to the level of the water. The red eye is the head of a pin, with some white glitter behind, and finally, the whole piece had finally come alive!. And as for the title: the sea creature seemed closest to what we think of as the Loch Ness Monster – but it wasn’t, not exactly. Moch Ness Monster seemed far more appropriate!