Log Cabin Pattern: in Quilt and in Watercolor

....well, it's some kind of Log Cabin pattern, it's my "variation", the original one has a slightly different arrangement of strips... :-)

"With watercolour, you can't cover up the marks. There's the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well."

David Hockney

http://quote.robertgenn.com/getquotes.php?catid=328

Watercolor: Appliquéd Grapes

It's like I am saying the same things, just in a different language.

Watercolor Amish Diamond Quilt

Watercolor Honeycomb Quilt Pattern

Watercolors

my watercolor painting of a quilt...

Mended

... and this is how it looked like when my mother - or my grandmother - used that darning mushroom and mended a sheet. I still have some old sheets and tablecloths from that time and I love to find these small traces of work.