Nellie's section on Carol's Corpse

I was the last to work on Carol's corpse before sending it on home for her to reveal.
She had included her color preferences of browns and blue-green as well as these inspirational materials.
Somehow in the rush to meet the December deadline before I left Tennessee for the holidays I missed seeing one of Carol's design lines that continues the flow of the ribbon across my section.
It had gotten covered up as I lay the bits of silk and deconstructed metalic threads and yarn as well as roving over the background of the square. The shapes were traced on freezer paper over a light table and cut out of silk fabrics. The whole section is constructed in my "ortwork" technique, which is a form of collage. The pieces are placed and layered and then "trapped" under tulle netting. Machine quilting holds everything in place. I finished by couching metallic cording over the edges of the shapes as well as outlining the diamond shapes at the top of my square.
It amazes me that my parallel rows of stitching on the loopy part mirrors Carol's double needle stitching on the corresponding shape in her section. I think if she were to repeat those double rows of machine stitching (or couching) in the area where the ribbon disappears in my section, it would create a ghost shape.

My finished corpse was waiting, still in its sealed envelope, for me to get Carol's finished and to the post office. It was difficult not to rip into mine until my obligation to the group project was fulfilled. Soon I'll post about my piece.