Not entirely sure where to post this! But at this stage it's kind of like an intarsia maybe??
A bunch of years ago I dug through everyone's $1 bins at Madras rock show and bought about $15 worth of red jasper slabs of varying quality, thickness and size. I had no idea what I was doing and a lot of them are very pitted and thin, and a few with many fractures. So, practice rocks! The end goal was a small mosaic pattern, maybe a mini table top.
About eight years later, finally took a day and made step 1 happen. I created the geometric pattern in Illustrator, printed it, cut each piece out and glued them to the rock with water-soluble craft glue. Then cut each one out on a trim saw and soaked off the paper. Only had one catastrophic mis-cut, though I did lose a few corners and predict I'll lose more in the polishing stage (which will happen in a tumbler). I'm a sculptor, not a quilter; my mother would be scandalized by my corners.
The white star in the middle is all stone gifted by a fellow forum member. 'sow belly' and 'mud springs' agate, and one that was labeled in orange pen but the writing had come off. There's one more segment to the pattern, a black border, which I'll make out of the black jasper I get here. That'll be next week's town trip to have slabbed at Richardson's. End goal is to grout it in black and adhere to tile backer board, after tumbling the pieces. Turquoise chips may also be involved, if I can find that vial of them...
This is an experiment and my first time trying any of this! I would welcome feedback on any step.
(It does all line up better than the picture would indicate.)
