The weather has been very grey here today so I thought I'd share some more colour with you in the form of my other textile creation inspired by seedheads.
Poppies on Garden Fleece (click to see the detail)
The poppies on the top layer (made from garden fleece!) were formed by stencilling on gesso and then painting the whole layer with fabric paint. It was then machine stitched onto the bottom layer of painted pelmet vilene (which had more poppies stencilled on with oil paint sticks). Free motion stitching with sparkly metallic thread is not something I've cracked yet, and I shouted at it many times as it jammed and snapped and missed stitches etc! After all that I got the heat gun out and blasted it - the fleece disintegrates VERY quickly! Finally I distressed the edges (I don't like straight lines) with the solder iron.
Stunning - why venture out if you have this lovely garden indoors?!
ReplyDeleteJane
Love it :D
ReplyDeleteOooh totally gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLovely - frame it.
ReplyDeleteThank you all for your lovely comments. I might even investigate a frame Fran!
ReplyDeleteSu
I never knew garden fleece could look so stunning Su. I liked your first poppy seed head but the colours of this one just seem to glow. Quite beautiful.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work - so much to look at!
ReplyDeleteI love this, I was toying with the idea of getting some Markal paintsticks, this is inspiring! Garden fleece ehe? .....ill wait till he's finished using it this year :)
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