Dip Net Fishing

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A fellow artist challenged me to make a quilt of a guy fishing on the Kenai.
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It’s salmon fishing season here in Alaska, so there have been lots of photos to inspire some quilts.
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Since I can’t make just one quilt at a time, I created two dip net fishing quilts. Each is 12” x 9”.
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As I was stitching these, I kept thinking about how to crete the nets. I looked into using netting I’ve saved from fruit packaging or netting from dressmaking supplies, but it all seemed wrong. Instead, I chose to stitch the netting free hand with black thread. I like how these turned out.

2 thoughts on “Dip Net Fishing”

  1. love the new designs you’ve been putting out. lots of imagination and great fabric designs.

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