Production Stories: Fin one drawing two outcomes

Sometimes a drawing just works.

This drawing was made from scraps of old prints, reconfigured and painted to create a design now called ‘Fin’. When I made this series of drawings in February, I didn’t have a plan aside from play; however, when the opportunity arose to design and make a patchwork bedroom curtain, this was the first design I reached for.

The two asymmetrical ‘fins’ lent themselves to the idea of two people asleep in a bedroom, allowing multiple cloth colours and textures to create a textural sheer curtain.

After finishing the curtain, I felt that more was to be done with the drawing, so I decided to make a 1:10 scale replica of the original drawing as a quilt. The quilt was made using fabrics from a textile reuse hub, which created a new fresh colour palette and provided pleasing design limitations to the final piece.

it has been quilted on the machine with a wool wadding inside and is the perfect size for a wall hanging or single bed throw.

Below are images of the process behind the two textile pieces, from initial drawing through to finished products.

The original drawing made from collaged screen prints and gouache details.

Scale drawing for the Fin curtain with potential fabric swatches

Checking the final balance of colours & textures

The original drawing with the back of the Fin curtain which was finished with a contrasting pink binding, creating a drawn line on the reverse of the design.

The beginning of the Fin quilt, during the production I decided to swap the acid yellow to a smaller portion of the quilt as it felt unbalanced.

The fin quilt and a sketch of it’s companion piece which will be on the machine soon.