Little Fish Creations

Last night I realised I had made a big, big mistake
when choosing the values for the lower layers of my quilt. The light
background teamed with the dark fingerprint left me no where to go with
the portrait. None of my hand dyed fabric could give me enough contrast
to make the portrait the focal point.

This wouldn’t work:

In a last ditch attempt to get this thing working I had to take a
little excursion during my lunch hour. To find some black fabric:

 

The fabric is currently going through the washing machine.  It had a weird sort of smell.

According to Riscy. 

I eventually found some black electrical tape to assemble the template for one of the background elements (fingerprint) in my new piece ‘Imprint’: