apparently these stitches have just been living inside me, waiting to pounce out all at once.
“Mr Lisbon kept trying to lift her off, gently, but even in our ignorance we knew it was hopeless and that despite Cecilia’s open eyes and the way her mouth kept contracting like that of a fish on a stringer it was just nerves and she had succeeded, on the second try, in hurling herself out of the world.”
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
It worked! Originally for this cover I was going to stitch in the folds of the dresses in the same way I render on my other pieces, but since I’m going to be using patterned fabric for these I thought stitching on top would be overkill, so I’m going to give the dresses actual folds.
…in theory.