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| “Double Double” Copyright Susan Brubaker Knapp 2024 42" x 70.5" |
White fabric, acrylic textile paint, Lutradur, cotton thread, cotton batting, cotton backing. Hand painted, free-motion machine stitched.
“Double Double” is a large piece I made this summer to explore ways to use different weights of Lutradur. First, I hand painted white fabric, smearing on orange and yellow paint with my hands and Bondo scrapers. Then I hand cut hundreds of circles out of Lutradur, and paint-dyed them before stitching them down to the fabric. After adding backing and batting, I free-motion stitched and quilted.
The name comes from Shakespeare’s Song of the Witches in Macbeth (1606):
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good. 
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