Ambitious Illustrator Creates a 108-Piece Cut Paper Quilt in 3 Months

In April of 2018, illus­tra­tor Dawn M. Car­dona embarked on the ambi­tious endeav­or known as the 100 Day Project. For over three months, she pledged to cre­ate a dif­fer­ent paper square each day and com­plet­ed it on July 22, 2018. She end­ed up going longer than the 100 days, in fact, and craft­ed 108 small illus­tra­tions out of col­lage. Using sol­id-col­or card­stock, the squares fea­ture a vari­ety of charm­ing char­ac­ters (includ­ing anthro­po­mor­phized archi­tec­ture), styl­ized flow­ers, and fash­ion­able animals.

Dawn laid out her con­cept on the first day of the project. “Each square will be cre­at­ed to stand alone,” she wrote, “but also to be able to flow into the next piece.” By the end, she assem­bled them all into a long paper quilt.

If you’d like to own one (or more) of these pieces, fol­low her on Insta­gram; she lists some of them in her Insta­gram sto­ries every Mon­day at 9 a.m. It’s a great way to own orig­i­nal art. You can also buy her work on Society6.

Here’s the project in its entirety: