I bought enough of the ballerina-princess fabric to make two cushions (for my bedroom) as well as the wall-hanging - I just had to come up with a message for the final cushion!
The messaging on the first cushion and the wall-hanging were incpired by a conversation I had with a guy who called me a "princess" - I chose the pattern from my local fabric shop to explore this particular conversation. The material and fringing were also chosen so that the wall-hanging would match the "MANTRUM" textiles pieces I made earlier this year - which I made so they would be identical in size and shape, although with different colour scheme and pattern on the fabric.
I was thinking about another conversation I had with an PGBTQ+ friend and I decided to go with the messaging "I WISH I WERE LESS STRAIGHT". I had to look up whether it should be "was" or "were" and according to the internet, Grammar Purists prefer "were" for a hypothetical statement - although both could have worked. I think this text matched with this very conventional depiction of female gender stereotype it is a particularly amusing message.
I used the same glitter felt and buttons as the other two textiles pieces in this series.
The cushions were intended to add an extra level of kitsch humour to my bedroom decor (pink duvet set, emoji cushions and neon lights as well as AT Kearney 'the Globalisation Index Bear' in his Hawaian outfit). The layout of the text on the two different cushions is inconsistent (the left being more spaced out) but that was in order to optimise the visibility of the fabric pattern - a creative compromise I was forced to make.
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