For my third piece in the 3-part-challenge Conversing with the Earth I had one piece of mud cloth of a relatively decent size left. (I am just waiting for the missing piece in reverse color to appear when reveal date has passed. But I am not actively searching, it would drive me mad, I know.) I decided to pair it with a piece of linen I had once dyed with onion skins. I had never been too thrilled with the result as I thought the color intensity lacking, but now it has found its home.
Unfortunately I did not take many pictures of the process. I knew the title early on, and at first debated whether I should add a piece of text a 'recipe' for Mud Pie - who in their childhood has not 'baked' a mud pie at some point? However, it didn't want to be written, instead, I have added waves and ripples in the quilting on the left hand side of the piece, as if looking down through water, which is a reminiscence to mud, too.
I did start stitching the recipe for Onion Cake (Tarte à l'oignon) on the onion-dyed pieces, and ran out of place before even finishing the list of ingredients. But that doesn't matter.
I may add a few more stitches in the white marks on the mud cloth, but haven't decided about that finally yet. Facing and sleeve remain to be finished:
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