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Wednesday 23 February 2022

Contemporary tulips fabric collage

 23rd February 2022

I wanted to make a tulip picture for my wall and trolled through Pinterest for ideas and came across a painting by Keesvanderwettering which really inspired me!

Selected background fabrics from my hand dyed stash....


....kantha stitched the silk and machined the others with variegated threads...


....drew out the design and traced then cut out the templates, however I forgot to reverse the tracing strips so the next stage doesn't look quite like this!!!


I backed the silk fabrics with bondaweb to help prevent fraying....


...all pieces in place...



...finally stitched with a darker thread...


....I didn't notice the two little threads while taking the photo!!!

This 6" square canvas is now on my wall and I rather like it!

Not sure what I will do next, maybe one of my unfinished pieces from my stash....


Saturday 19 February 2022

Snowdrop Fabric Collage

 19th February 2022

Hello everybody, thought I would share my latest collage with you.

I  had a MASSIVE sort out in my craft room and came across this piece of fabric which I sponge painted ages ago, the perfect size for my 6" square canvas....


....painted another piece of cotton then used pastel to give this effect....

...backed this with bondaweb so that I could cut out the leaves...


....I had lots of small pieces of white fabric already backed with bondaweb from a previous project so cut up into snowdrop petals...


...used a dark green thread and free machined and finished with simple hand stitching.


I covered a 6" square canvas and it is now on my wall, already started the next one.....

....watch this space!