I became interested in some of Magie Relph’s African fabrics after visiting her exhibition at Loch Lomond Quilt Show in 2011. This piece of dyed mudcloth was too small to treat as an entire wholecloth so I cut it up and added rows of shot cottons and gold lamé that were used elsewhere on the Yurt. The colours of this dyed piece were suitably earthy just like those seen in autumn on a muddy Scottish bracken and heather covered bog. It was quilted at Festival of Quilts in 2011 while I gave longarm quilting demonstrations. The large resist-dyed circles reminded me of the prints that can be left behind by mushroom spores.