Hey Creative Friend,
In this chapter of My Moxie and Me (Then story of my longarm machine), I’ve been challenging myself to learn to thread paint on the long arm machine.
Before we go on, I want to be clear that I know the long arm was not built for thread painting. However, I like to challenge myself to use tools in unconventional ways. Ultimately, I may or may not be successful in doing this. The results of this challenge, in my opinion, are not really important. What is important though is the experience and learning that comes from the experimentation and creative play.
I’ll definitely continue to use My Moxie for its main purpose – to quilt. My intention is to use it to quilt the negative areas and background spaces in my work, especially my larger pieces.
I want to share the results of my first attempt at my thread painting challenge with you. The results are in no way stellar. I’m sharing them anyway. For me, it’s all about showing you the journey – the difficult starts, the messy middle and the beautiful ending. I don’t want to hide away in my studio and perfect a skill and then come show you how wonderful I am at it. I want you to see the growth process.
Many of you who have been following me for a while often comment on my growth – how far I’ve come. It’s because I take you along the journey to show you behind the scenes. So, you know where I’ve come from to be where I am.
When we watch ourselves (or others grow), we gain confidence to move forward in our own personal journeys.
Clara Nartey
So, here goes, my friend.
I started with a simple sketch that goes way back to a sketch I made of an Aladdin Lamp when I was doing my Stitch the Sketch challenge. You can see how that original sketch turned out here. Since this is all about experimentation, I’m focusing on practice and play not pretty. Hence the rough sketch. I drew it directly onto black fabric.
I loaded my black fabric onto my Handi Quilter Moxie and sketched directly on the long arm. Now, I’ve overcome my fears of loading the Moxie. Each time I load my Moxie, I’ve gotten more confident in my abilities to the point that I have no anxieties about doing it anymore. Yay!!
Getting Started with the Thread Painting Challenge
After, I was all setup on My Moxie, I started to thread paint. If you’ve watched any of my thread painting videos, (there are a ton of them on Youtube including me thread painting this same sketch on my domestic machine a few years ago), you’ll notice I use simple straight stitches.
I can quilt on the longarm without much of a problem. Of course there are things I still want to learn about quilting on a longarm. I’m just getting started. 🙂 When you think about it, transitioning from the domestic machine to the Moxie hasn’t been difficult at all. I can even quilt with one hand. It’s pretty neat. Thread painting with it though, is what I’m still working on. Will I be able to use a great tool for the wrong purpose? I don’t know. That’s the challenge.
Below is the first result of my Thread Painting Challenge on the Handi Quilter Moxie
The Results
Finally, you be the judge. You can find the original sketch here. How do you think I did?
That’s it for now, my friend.
PS: Find all the other posts in this series here – My Moxie and Me
The Essence of the Color Black
I love a black and white piece of artwork – maybe because the first type of art I fell in love with as a child were pencil/charcoal drawings. But I also love colorful work and I’ve actually got a knack for creating some intensely colorful work.
So, I’m often torn between working in greyscale (black, greys and whites only) or working in full color. I think working with either color palette is challenging. Although, I must say working in greyscale is a roundabout way to mastering how to work in full color.
Soon after I started work on my recent piece “Stacked Houses #1”, I knew I was going to redo it in color. I just couldn’t help but wonder what it would look like in full color. And I was itching to outline the shapes in the color black to see what effect I’ll get. My journey in creativity is truly a project in curiosity. My curiosity always gets the better of me.
Live, Create and Learn
The more I create, the more I learn the power of the color black. Coming from a culture where the color black is associated with grief, death, mourning and all kinds of dark stuff, this color wasn’t always my first choice to include in my colorful palettes. But now I’ve learned. (Live, Create and Learn). 🙂
“Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there’s shadow – no, not just shadow, but fullness. You’ve got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that’s real.” ~Amy Grant
When I’ve included the color black in a colorful palette, it’s always added more interest to my work than I’d otherwise have been able to do without it. In the early years of my work, you’ll hardly find any blacks in my color palettes but as my creative skills have grown, I’ve come to appreciate its importance.
Initially, when I began to realize the importance of black and its effect on my color palettes, I resisted it. I didn’t want to change. I questioned why when I created work with the color black. they elicited more interest than without. But now, I’ve accepted its place in my color schemes and I’ve decided to embrace it.
So, in this piece, I make a special effort to include the color black in various places to make the other colors pop. I outlined the shapes with black thread. Since I was using the same weight thread for both shading and outlining, it meant I had to go over the outlines several times in order to make them stand out.
I also used black threads in a couple of simple line drawings. For example, for the windows in “Stacked Houses#2”, I decided to maintain black line drawings like I did in “Stacked Houses #1”. I think this turned out to be very effective.
So, here you have it, Stacked Houses #2:
I created a video to show you the entire stitching process. If you enjoy watching how my pieces come together, follow me on Instagram. For the past two weeks, I’ve been chronicling my progress with photos on Instagram. So, follow me on Instagram to get regular (sometimes daily) updates of my art in progress. You’ll see both photos and videos of what I’m creating.
Here’s the thread drawing video. If you enjoy the video, then like & subscribe to my YouTube channel for more videos and don’t forget to share it with your friends.
Your Turn
Which of the two pieces do you like better? The black and white or the colorful one? Comment below and head on over to my Facebook page to vote for the one you like better. 🙂 I can’t wait to see which one will win – Black & White or Color.
Warmest regards,
You may also be interested in Stacked Houses #1- Work in Progress PLUS Video
I started some stacked houses in my sketchbook a while back but I never followed up on them. So recently as I thought about what to create, I decided to go back to those sketches and start from there. In this post, I’m going to show you the process I went through in creating my newest piece – Stacked Houses #1.
Here’s the original sketch I started with.
As you can see, it’s not much of a sketch. It was just an initial idea, that I planned on investigating later. That’s why I often say that just start with whatever you’ve got, don’t wait to have it all figured out before you do.
Later, I tweaked it a little bit more to get this:
It’s still not much. But it was all I needed to get started. Usually, I’ll shade this in my sketchbook to get a sense of where to place values, but I didn’t do that here.
I traced it onto a white backing fabric with a heat erasable marker.
And then I stitched over the tracing with my sewing machine to get this.
The white fabric is not the fabric I want to work on. I traced and stitched on this fabric because it’s white and easier to see my traced and stitched lines.
I flipped over my sandwich to get this reflected image:
As you can see from the progression, I went back and forth toying with the idea of windows, but I didn’t commit to them long enough to stitch them into my tracing. I’ll come back to the topic of windows later.
Now I was all set to start stitching/shading. Since I hadn’t investigated shading values in my sketchbook, from here on everything is improvisational. I had no pre-planned course of action.
After the first couple of stitches, here’s what I got:
Then a little more progress:
And finally, by varying thread colors, stitch direction, stitch distance and stitch thickness I finished it.
As you can see, I revisited the windows and added them to my final drawing. I wasn’t exactly happy about their height, though. I think they may have been a little too high. But I’m very pleased with the contrast they added to the drawing, in that they are different in function and in execution – line drawings vs shaded drawings.
I created a demo video for you to see how I worked on this piece. Enjoy and share!!!
In Conclusion
All in all, I’m happy I explored this idea of stacked houses and followed my vision to create this piece. This is what I visualized in my mind when I started “Stitch the Sketch“.
Several years ago as a child, these were the type of drawings I saw at my local art center. At the time, I thought only special people- naturally gifted and talented people, could come up with such sketches. Fast forward to today and I can do this, not just in pencil but in a medium I had no knowledge of when I was a little girl.
I feel truly blessed to be able to create art.
Warmest Regards,
How to Put The Finishing Touches on An Art Quilt
Finally, “Under the Microscope #2” is almost complete. Just a few more finishing touches and I can let it go. In phase1, Phase2 and Phase3, I showed you the entire process of how I created this piece. So now, let me show you how I add the finishing touches. Here’s what I’ve got to do:
Finishing Touches
- Square it up and make sure all four edges are straight
- Add a facing to finish up the edges
- Sew on a hanging sleeve
- Attach a label
So let’s get to it.
Squaring Up the Edges
I usually use a wide transparent ruler to square the edges of my work. But my ruler is only 24.5″ long. So when my piece is longer than that I either use two rulers or one long ruler. My long rulers are metallic and therefore not transparent.
In recent years, I’ve come to enjoy using a long T-square that is meant for home construction. It works great for larger art pieces and you can square two sides at a go which is nice.
I start by laying my art piece on a large cutting mat and then positioning the T-square on the art piece.
Since I wanted my finished piece to be a specific size, I lay a tape measure across the piece to ensure I have the correct size plus enough seam allowance.
Next, I use my rotary cutter to cut off the excess.
Next, I repeat the process for all four sides to get a completely squared piece.
Adding a Facing to Finish Up the Edges
I start by cutting up some strips of fabrics to use for my facing.
Then I sew them to all four sides of my piece.
Next, I turn the strips over and iron them.
Sew on a Hanging Sleeve
If I’m not mounting my work on stretcher bars I attach a hanging sleeve to the back of my piece so that the buyer can easily slip a slat or rod through for hanging on their walls.
I create a four-inch wide sleeve and attach it one inch from the top of the work. I make sure that it extends to only one inch inside each edge of the work. This way, a hanging rod will be well-hidden in the back and not show in front.
Attach a Label
I start by cutting a piece of fused fabric in a contrasting color to the color of the back of my art piece.
Then I use my fabric markers or archival ink micron pens to draw and write the important information on the label.
Then I free-motion stitch the label to the back of my piece.
That’s it my dears. I’ll be entering it into the Inspired by Science show next week. Fingers crossed.
Warmest Regards,
You may also be interested in these posts in the series:
Part1: Basting with Fusibles
Part2: Gain Color Confidence Now
Part3: Line Drawings with Thread
In recent months, I’ve fallen back on doing work in progress updates. Today, I’m going to show you what’s on the work table in my studio and I’ll teach you how I use fusibles to hold the various layers of my materials together without stitching and explain why I use facings to finish my work.
I’ve finally completed work on Under the Microscope #1, a mini piece which I introduced to you a few weeks back. I finished the edges with one of my favorite finishing techniques which is called facing.
Facings vs Bindings
I prefer using facings to using bindings because unlike bindings, facings don’t interrupt the flow of the image around the edges. The image goes all the way around the edges.
Secondly, if you do your facings right, you can have very nicely squared edges for your finished art piece.
Now that the mini piece is done, it’s serving as my inspiration for the larger piece that I’d planned to create all along. That’s going to be # 2 in the series.
Fusibles Instead of Basting
To start work on this piece, I cut up strips of fusible web and adhered them to both the backing fabric and top fabric. Instead of basting the different layers together whether by hand or by sewing machine, I rather use fusible web for this purpose.
For smaller pieces, I’d go ahead and cut a piece of fusible web the entire size of the piece but for larger pieces like this one which is about 27″ x 38″, I use strips.
Using strips instead saves you from wasting fusible web and it’s fast.
Next, I peel the strips of fusibles to reveal the glue on the fabric. The only downside of using strips is that the backing paper that is peeled off the fusibles are in such small pieces I can’t use it for anything else. (Otherwise, I usually find good uses for the backing paper).
Now, that I have glue on my top and bottom layers, I attach the other layers and fuse (glue) them all together by ironing.
Preparing the Canvas
Since this is a bigger piece, I toyed with the idea of “preparing the canvas” before arranging collage pieces on top of the canvas and doing any creative drawing. I knew I’d be having a lot of negative space in this piece – places where I wouldn’t place any elements. So to ensure that these spaces don’t pose structural problems to me. I decided to do an all over stitching on the almost 1000 square inches of background fabric.
I started with a meandering stitch as you can see on the top left-hand side of this photo. But I wasn’t quite satisfied with the look. So I went with this all over “cell-like” look. This is more like what I have in mind for the final piece. I’m still concerned it might interfere with my final design. But I’m not going to worry about that now.
I’m going to finish up prepping the “canvas” (background) and I’ll bring you some more updates later. Stay tuned.
Warmest Regards,
You may also be interested in these posts in the series:
Part2: Gain Color Confidence Now
Part 3: Line Drawings with Thread
Part 4:
For a while, I’ve been talking about my region’s upcoming exhibition, “Inspired by Science”. Well, the prospectus provides two options for members of my art group to enter their works – A trunk show and then the main show.
The size requirement for the trunk show is 12″ x 12″. Since I’m the managing curator for the show, I’ve got to set a good example, right. So well, I don’t have a choice. I’ve got to enter a piece in the main exhibit as well as in the trunk show.
So I started working on my trunk show piece a couple of weeks back. And I shared work in progress photos of the first part with you. This week, let’s continue where I left off.
I’m going to be doing some creative drawing to add details.
I began by adding more branches to the dendrites
Next, I started to add small colorful organic shapes cut out of fabrics
And finally, I drew some more cell-like shapes using thread.
And here are a few detail photos.
I haven’t posted a video of me drawing with thread for a long time so this time I did. Check out the video to see the steps I took to create this trunk showpiece.
Your Turn
I think I may have added too many details with the threads. My original idea was not to have so much detail in the background. What do you think? Do you think the details turned out to be an overkill or you like it just the way it is?
Write your thoughts down in the comments section. I can’t wait to hear what you’ve got to say. Chat soon.
Warmest Regards,
You may also be interested in these posts in the series:
Part1: Basting with Fusibles
Part2: Gain Color Confidence Now
Part 3: Line Drawings with Thread
Part 4:
“Share what you make and soon enough you’ll discover which part of your creative work resonates with people.”
This quote was the main point of an article I wrote here on the blog not too long ago. Well, well,… My experiences this past month of March, just proved how so very true that statement is.
I spent the entire month sharing with the folks on the Fire Blog I really had to do a lot of juggling – to pull this off. Putting the teaching material together took a great deal of my time. Meanwhile, I still kept writing and publishing here on my blog consistently.
But it turned out that it was all worth it. I got to meet and interact with so many people last month. It must have been one of my busiest months to date. I responded to several emails, I’ll say, every day of the month. My interaction with the blog followers was the most fun part of my Resident Artist Job on the Fire Blog.
Before long, I was beginning to receive requests to teach a course on my Stitched Drawing techniques. So many people were having so much fun they wanted more.
Feedback on Stitched Drawing Tutorial
Here are some of the comments …….
OMG! I am so excited that you will be doing this!
and
I have learnt so much from these write-ups Clara.
and
This info has been very helpful to me. Looking forward to more in this series.
I kept on getting asked repeatedly about where I teach my techniques almost the entire month. Also, I got a lot of notes from grateful people.
Thanks for answering my questions in past posts. It has been good to see and read about your work this month.
And another….
Thank you for your March tutorial. and the links added today. helpful when steps are broken down in chunks! I totally agree repeated efforts lead to better result!!!
More gratitude….
Awesome! Thank you for being so generous.
When in the first week I had several people tell me they’d ordered the items on the supplies list and couldn’t wait to start, I knew we were in for a good ride.
Stitched Drawing Course in the Works
So, I listened.
I thought about all the things which were said to me.
Finally, I made a decision. I decided to create a course that will meet the needs of those who are really interested in learning my Stitched Drawing techniques.
If you’re interested in combining drawing skills with free motion quilting skills to create uniquely beautiful designs, then this course is for you. You don’t even need any drawing skills to do this. How wonderful is that?
I’m currently working on creating the content – both videos and reading materials – for the Stitched Drawing course. So exciting!!!
If you’re interested in learning my techniques and having fun creating your own original designs, then get on the list to be notified when the Stitched Drawing course is ready. I’ll have EXCLUSIVE bonuses for those who enroll for the Stitched Drawing course early. So you’ll want to get notified as soon as the course is open for enrollment.
Showing Your Work is Important for Creative Growth
Finally, let me say this if you want to grow creatively, begin to share your work. Share with those around you. Share your work every opportunity you get. Sharing your work stretches you and makes you grow in leaps and bounds.
Initially, you might be hesitant or you may react strongly when someone rejects your work or criticizes it negatively. But you know what, you get better at receiving negative feedback, the more you receive it. You learn to take such feedback objectively. You learn to accept rejection and use it as a springboard to pursue greater things. You’ll learn to improve your work based on the feedback of others.
Great companies do this. They allow their products to be poked at, and broken apart and reengineered. They put quality controls in place to ensure they create only the best possible thing they can.
Creatives must also get in the habit of doing the same. Sharing your work with others has many benefits. It is the way to get feedback to help you continuously improve and also find what people like about your work.
If you’ve been on the fence about whether to show your work or not. I hope this encourages you. Don’t forget to sign up to get a notification when enrollment opens for my Stitched Drawing course.
Your Turn
What are some of the obstacles you’ve faced in trying to show your work? Share the wins you’ve made as a result of sharing/showing your work.
Warmest Regards,
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3 Ways to Get Rid of Unfinished Objects
This was a week in which everything that could go wrong in the studio, did. I wasn’t so surprised that so many things went wrong. What I was surprised at, though was why I didn’t give up. Why in the world did I persist, putting up with all of that stuff? Before I give you my thoughts on that, let’s start from the beginning, shall we?
For starters, I spent a couple of days painting my background fabric like I did with last week’s piece. Wanting to push the envelope a little more, I experimented with more new ideas.
So after doing several coats of paint, I let it dry overnight. The next day when I woke up to look at the painted fabric, I didn’t like it. Well, that’s not quite true.
I did like it very much. I’d been successful in creating a nice fabric design But it wasn’t what I had in mind for this week’s sketch. It was too patterned and I was looking for something a lot more solid.
So I went back and did another painting, this time on canvas and that came out just like I had in mind.
Next, I enlarged my pencil sketch to fit the size I wanted to work in. That’s when I realized that, I hadn’t drawn my pencil sketch in the same proportions to my finished piece.
More Resistance …
So yet another hiccup – my enlarged piece wasn’t looking quite like what I wanted. An empty space had been created on the bottom right-hand side.
Although I labored over the enlarged design all day and night, I couldn’t fix it. And then just before turning in, in the wee hours of the morning, I figured out a solution that I was satisfied with.
When it comes to the hiccups I encountered while stitching, I don’t even want to get started. All I’ll say about that is, I learned something new about threads.
You can have one terrible spool of thread among an otherwise high-quality batch of threads.
Granted, persistence is an important characteristic of creativity. We’ve talked about that here many times but my question is why do you persist even when you have good reason to quit.
After careful thought, here are the reasons I came up with.
3 Things That Make You Persist with Your Creative Project
- Accountability: Having someone or a group of people that looks forward to seeing your work persist even when you want to quit. I remember once at an art group meeting someone said to me, “you haven’t shown any work in a while”. This was a couple years of ago but I still remember. When you have an accountability group, creating work ceases to be solely about you and more about those who enjoy seeing your work.
- Deadlines: I create every day because I’d set a personal deadline to create one piece every week. If you have deadlines, whether self-imposed or otherwise, you’ll persist until the end. You know how when you have a deadline, you keep procrastinating till the deadline is close. Then you jump to action and work hard right to the deadline, to complete whatever project you have? Yeah, deadlines have that effect on making you persist to the end.
- Personal Satisfaction: Being able to accomplish a feat, to cross it off your to-do list sometimes, can also be enough motivation to persist in your creative endeavors.
So if you have challenges with how to persist in creating, you should incorporate these 3 things into your creative practice. Join a critique group, set deadlines for yourself and have a to-do list of things you want to create. That’ll surely help you avoid having lots of Unfinished Objects (UFOs) lying around.
Your Turn
What are some of the ways you have employed to help you persist in creating even when the going gets tough? Can’t wait to read your comments.
Warmest Regards,
I’ve always loved surface design and being able to revisit it again is really fun. This time it seems to be more focused on painting, not hand dyeing or some of the other techniques I’ve done in the past.
Winter has a way of either getting you down in the down doldrums with cabin fever or frantically searching for an outlet. So I’m glad that painting has become that outlet for me.
Like I did last week, I painted my background fabric with diluted acrylic paints. This time I used a white cotton fabric instead of a canvas. The effect was pretty much the same except for in weight. The painted canvas was of course, heavier than the painted cotton solids. And the painted cotton solids heavier than their unpainted friends.
Printing Geometric Shapes
However, to add a little more interest to my background, I went a little further and printed some shapes onto my background fabric. Dipping the lids of circular bowls and jars into paint, I printed the circular shapes onto the fabric.
Well, just as with any creative process, things don’t always follow a defined path and they sure didn’t this time. My printed circles were too perfectly round, which isn’t the look I was going for.
Yes, I knew the look I was going for but I didn’t quite get there. So, in came another coat of diluted acrylics. A couple of light brushstrokes over the background fabric and suddenly, the printed circles were not so perfect anymore.
Adding a Layer of Texture to Background Fabric
Moving along, it was now time to add another layer of interest – texture. Using the printed circles as templates, I stitched quilting designs that fit right into the circles.
This did not only create texture but also added to the unity of the design. My printed circles and designs were both the same geometric shapes.
Drawing with Fabric Collages
And now to the foreground, I cut out hand dyed fabrics in curvy shapes to create the design I had in mind. I was going for a cropped version of another design I’d previously created here. I didn’t want to draw all the curvy shapes with fabric collages. So I marked some of the curves to draw with thread sketching later.
Design Challenges
Well again, I hit a snag. At this point, the design wasn’t quite coming together as I’d hoped. There was too much negative space in the upper right-hand corner and it just wasn’t looking balanced. I tried to arrange the elements on the foreground as best as I could but it just wasn’t coming together. Hmm, what do I do?
Then. I remembered one of my old design tricks – the upside-down design technique. So I rotated my work and started arranging the elements in that orientation. And what do I know, it worked!
So the lesson here: The process of creating doesn’t always go smoothly. And of course, there’s no guarantee that the failures along the way will lead to success. But if you give up, you’ll never know what you may have created.
Your Turn
What lessons are you learning in your studio practice this week?
Warmest Regards,
This has been a fun week working with an acrylic painted fabric. For a while now, I haven’t been satisfied with the backgrounds of my work. I felt they were just plain boring. So, I’ve been thinking of ways to kick it up a notch.
I got my opportunity this week when I decided to paint some fabrics to use as my background instead of the solid black background fabric I’ve been using recently. Although I’ve painted fabrics before, this time I wanted to try an acrylic painted fabric, not a dye painted fabric.
Unprimed Canvas
I started off with a piece of unprimed canvas that I purchased by the yard from a fabric store. I knew going in that using an unprimed canvas will mean, the canvas will absorb more of the paint. But that’s the look I was going for. Not the look where the paint adheres to the top surface of the acrylic painted fabric.
So I chose the unprimed canvas for this effect. Secondly, I chose it so I’ll have an easy time sewing through my acrylic painted fabric. I knew that if I had the paints sitting on top of a primed canvas, it’ll be difficult to stitch through.
Diluted Acrylic Paints
Furthermore, I aggressively diluted my paint with water to about 50% water and 50% acrylic paint. It created a form of an acrylic wash. This also helped to reduce the “plastic-y” feel of the paint. Thus making it easier for me to stitch through later.
Drying the Acrylic Painted Fabric Between Washes
I used the acrylic wash to paint over the canvas several times. I used different values of blue and gray paint. My final acrylic painted fabric must have been painted at least 10 times. Each time, I let it dry before applying another wash. I used a hair dryer to hasten things along. Letting it dry first before applying another wash ensures that the previous colors get the chance to set.
Then I drew two curves in blue and orange on top of the background. The design I was going for is the cropped version of this design that I created a few weeks ago. Drawing on the painted canvas was very challenging for me. Because I drew shapes freehand on the acrylic painted fabric, I was working so hard to get them perfectly placed.
As much as I try to avoid perfectionism because I know it’s bad for creativity, sometimes I just find myself tangled up in it. When that happens, I have to talk myself out of it to keep moving. Although I managed to make myself move along, I won’t lie to you. I went back a couple of times to try and perfect those two curves. (You’d notice in the video below that I went at it again with thread sketching.)
After I was satisfied with the colors and somewhat satisfied with the curves, I hang my acrylic painted fabric to dry for 48 hours. I don’t think I needed to wait that long. But I wasn’t quite ready to go back to working on it any sooner. So it all worked out great. The paints got a chance to set and I got a chance to work on other things.
Quilting The Acrylic Painted Fabric
Ultimately, I knew, I wanted to add thread sketching to this piece to add texture and to increase its interest. I planned to use thread to draw a few more shapes but I knew I’d have lots of negative spaces on my acrylic painted fabric. Since I wanted to prevent that from causing puckering issues, I decided to first quilt the entire background before thread sketching.
Fabric Collages Fused to Acrylic Painted Fabric
Now to add more elements to this mixed media project, I cut out some curves from fabric and fused it to my now quilted, acrylic painted fabric.
Thread Sketching
Watch the video to see me adding thread elements to this complex piece.
The Big Reveal
And now, here you have it, drum roll, please…….. “Infinity” – Hand-dyed, acrylic painted fabric, thread sketched and free motion stitched.
Overall Front View
Close Up View of the Front
Overall – Rear View
Close-Up Back View
Perfectionism tried to stop me but I wouldn’t let it.
Your Turn
What do you think about stretching your creativity and trying something new like I did this week? Have you used an acrylic painted fabric in your work before? What challenges did you face? Can’t wait to hear from you.
Warmest Regards,