Shame Offering 1 - Plastic bag embroidery floss on muslin

Size: 8″x10″
Fabric: Loose weave muslin died with wild-harvested blood root.
Floss: hand-spun plastic from up-cycled newspaper bags

This is the first real piece from my planned Sacrifice|Offering Project. I’m very excited about this first one, and the others currently in the queue.

This first offering series is intended as “prayer flags” to focus on the wastefulness of modern Western culture. The symbol is one that I designed to symbolize a sacrificial offering. I plan to use this image in all of the pieces in the Sacrifice|Offering Project.

The embroidery is done with floss I spun from the plastic bags my newspapers come in. Thankfully, there was a unique sponsor one day that had a bright purple bag that turned into this variegated lavender. I can get probably 20+ yards of floss from bag., and it stitches like a dream.

Once I have a few completed, I’ll be listing them for sale in my Etsy shop. Leave a comment below, if you’d like to be updated when they are available.  I’ve previously thought I’d be listing these for $36, but I’ve decided that the prayer flags will be $18.  I am still planning on immediately investing any money earned from the sale of these prayer flags on the micro-finance website Kiva.org.  Eventually, I’ll get the $18 — but it seems really right to “pay if forward” before I do.  It’s possible I might use some of it to fund amazing other artists on Kickstarter, but my plan is for these pieces to fund Kiva.