Yourself or Someone Like You 

(30" x 28")

Well now this quilt was a lot more difficult to create than Mad Season.  It is made up entirely by squares of fabric ranging in size from 1/4" to 4" (finished) and took about 60 hours to complete.  It was a real challenge to work in a monochromatic color palette with such tiny pieces.

In order to create it, I first had a friend scan in the cover of matchbox twenty's first CD, Yourself or Someone Like You.  He then placed a 64 x 64 square grid pattern over the image and printed it out for me.  (I needed a small grid in order to get enough detail to create the face.)  I then interpreted each square, or group of squares,  in the "grid-map" as a piece of fabric.

I had about 1/3rd of the face sewn together, and about 25 hours of time invested,  before I could tell if it looked like a face.  (I had to look through a camera lens in order to get enough "distance" to see it clearly.)  I was so relieved there was a face in my quilt when I was done!

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