Final Project -Hannah Kang

For this final project, I wanted to focus more on my family. With the holiday season coming around and Thanksgiving having just passed, I was thinking about the importance of family. I am one of five members in my family plus a dog. We are all very different in styles, looks, and talents. I wanted to take this idea of identity and individualize it on a mini quilt but also uniform it together — as how a family should be. 

I created fingerprint embroideries and initials of the first letters in each of our Korean names — starting with my dad, myself, my sister, my brother, my mom, and my dog. All of us happen to have different favorite colors that add up to the colors of the rainbow. Therefore, each fingerprint is represented by a our own favorite colors with a contrasting background platform. The contrasting background color is in response to a color of a family members color that is not themselves. This was to show that even with contrasts, we can come together to be one once all the pieces are put together.

I embroidered the fingerprints, applied applique on the initials, and hand stitched the patches and the back piece together. I chose this method to show that my hand work was put into this quilt instead of a machine. I was thinking more about how my family consists of the good and the bad but that we work hard and each step is important in how we build our relationship together. The size of my quilt is supposed to resemble a page of a scrapbook. It is almost like a family tree that will continue throughout the future.