Mandala CCIX

(Above:  Mandala CCIX.  Custom framed:  19 3/4" x 19 3/4".  Found objects hand-stitched to a section of a vintage quilt.  Objects include:  A vintage typewriter ribbon tin on a silver belt buckle; corn cob holders; emery-filled sewing strawberries; prisms; Iwo Jima collector coins honoring US veterans; aluminum circles with numbers; small bicycle wrenches; sewing machine bobbins; yellow poker chips; copper-colored aluminum can tabs; assorted buttons and beads.  Click on either image to enlarge. $395.)

Before going to Venice, I'd finished stitching this Found Object Mandala but didn't find time to mount it, frame it, photograph it, or blog it.  I knew it would have to wait.  Today ... it all came together!

 

(Above:  Detail of Mandala CCIX.)

Several of the items on this mandala came from the Pickens County flea market.  The flea market is every Wednesday, all year long.  Steve and I went today but found next to nothing.  Some weeks are outstanding; some aren't.  Maybe next week I'll score a few more interesting things like the emery-filled sewing strawberries!