The Jabberwock

The latest challenge for my Fast Friday Fabric Yahoo group was to make a quilt in one week that depicted the poem The Jabberwock by Lewis Carol. Talk about difficult! When first read it appears to be a dark poem but since it can mean different things to different people I decided to construct a quilt that wasn't quite so 'dark'. I chose to interpret the challenge and to depict the Jabberwock as winter roaming through the forest, settling in, and darkening all things bright and beautiful for several months. I also decided to use brighter colors to show winter as a season beautiful in its own way.
The leaves seem to be hung on the branch not willing to let go of autumn but one by one will fall to winter's rath, as one is depicted as doing. The chilly winds are blowing across the quilt with a mix of the first snow flakes.
Then since I also belong to a Tiny Textiles Yahoo group with the challenge piece not to exceed 10" in any direction I decided to make this a small quilt to fit this group's parameters, too. It's due on October 31st so the two worked together well. The quiltlet is 10" x 6 1/2" in size.
Today's weather is anything but wintry like. But it sounds as though it will be the last since Halloween is to be quite cool again. We plan to clean out our small pond this afternoon and bring the fish into the basement for the winter. Washing my car is also in the plans. Not often we have 70+ degree temps this late in October.