Diaper Garden Gallery: Watermelon
September 2002
The wheel is turning. If you're lucky it is getting a little cooler and you are harvesting many of the summer vegetables. The weather is just right for wearing a sweater to a picnic or a party just so you can eat a bunch of watermelon.
Setting. Watermelon photos taken in our own backyard. There were big piles of diapers surrounded by watermelons both cut and uncut. This was the first Diaper Garden set, and we hadn't yet figured out that people wanted multiple views. The visual details are sparse.
See the Watermelon Diaper Garden Retrospective from October 2003.
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September 2002
Watermelon fitted cloth diapers
The sense of watermelon was created simply by the juxtaposition of visually arresting colors: chartreuse outside, hot watermelon pink inside, and avocado binding. There were no extra fabric tricks for the watermelon diapers.
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September 2002
Watermelon wool diaper covers
For the watermelon wool, we painted thin, deliberately uneven stripes down the length of the wool. What a nightmare. The dye kept soaking into the center of the wool and wouldn't sit on the surface. When it dried, it looked like nothing was there. We ended up with piles of unusable wool as we experimented to get this just right. In the end, Marc soaked the wool in vinegar before painting the stripes. Very stinky.
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