Jo Mortland
"I Wanna Be an Ice Cream
Crone"
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| (Photos by Patrick Fraser) |
When a friend coined the term Ice Cream Crone some years ago, I adopted it IMMEDIATELY! I was not old enough to be considered a crone, but loved the idea that older women are cool, sweet and fun! Delicious!
This idea surfaced again when the hats were assigned as this year’s project for Women’s Journeys in Fiber. Now that I AM crone material, this idea is a guiding star for me. In difficult situations, I can ask myself, “What Would an Ice Cream Crone Do?”
I used a bowl from my kitchen as the form to build my hat. The fabric for the bowl was strengthened with fusible batting. Cotton quilt batting is used as the scoop of ice cream, satin as hot fudge, beads as sprinkles, and eyelet trim for the whipped cream. I chose to be a hot fudge sundae because contrasts appeal to me. With the combination of Sinful Chocolate and Virginal Vanilla, dark and light, hot and cold, liquid and solid are represented. More than that, one can consider the contrast between aging physically, and the increase in wisdom and maturity that comes with advance years.
What flavor would YOU be??