FALL FOLIAGE - UTILIZING THOSE EXPERIMENTS

This 'make do with the fabrics you have' project continues. Because I'm spending so much time hand quilting something for our local quilt guild show....this one had sort of been put on the back burner.  

In case you missed the past posts on this subject.....all these fabrics are results from various Fiber Junkies meetings. (A group of 6 who gather once a month to explore different techniques.)  It's loads of fun, but so often I'm left with such small samples that don't work together or are challenging to incorporate into other work.

 The fabric I liked the best made great tree trunks.  It had been dyed, over dyed, painted, and then stamped using oil pastels.....at 4 different meetings!! Talk about indecision! After cutting narrow strips, it's now been fused to the background and secured with machine applique.

A not so interesting deconstructed screen printed fabric was the base for some more stenciling using oil pastels....simple embroidery adds textures to these trees.

 And some French knots were added to just a few trees.

Okay.....I couldn't resist......yes I started beading along the quilted sun ray lines......  

And a rarity.....I sat most of two afternoons in my studio completing the beading.  I almost always reserve handwork for the evenings....but with my other evening project I was too anxious to wait on this one.  

FALL FOLIAGE  18.5" X 17"  © 2014

AVAILABLE HERE     SOLD

Artist dyed, overdyed, printed, painted, stamped 
cotton, embroidered, and bead embellished

I'm linking to Nina-Marie's Off The Wall Friday and Sarah's Whoop Whoop Friday.