Inspired by the homelessness in Brighton and other research that I had done, I decided to look into what it is like for women for live on the streets without the proper resources they need in order to be clean and have a healthy period.

Through research, it was clear that women who live on the streets face issues that are not unfair for any woman to face. Through my quilt, I want to highlight what these women have to undergo every month, without the proper things that they need.

The quilt uses a variety of different scraps of found and bought red fabric, which is symbolic of the period. I wanted to capture the aesthetics of being homeless by using found fabrics and ones that are worn out/battered.

I then embroidered some facts and stats that I found out about homeless women during their period.

I wanted to strictly use red threads to create type and image onto the quilt however it became difficult to read the type so I decided to use a range of pinks and reds to make the type stand out and legible.

The making of the quilt itself was very difficult due to the thickness of the duvet and because of the movement of the quilt whilst on the sewing machine made It difficult to sew and made the needles snap.

I purposely used bedding and a duvet to make the quilt as these are the items you would mainly associate with being homeless.

The quilt has a variety of imagery including a homeless woman, sanitary towels, and tampons, the anatomy of the female reproductive systems. In the quilt, the slogans that I used was ‘end period poverty’ and many other slogans.