Finally Back!
Well it's been a long time but I'm finally back. I was ill for some time and got out of the habit of posting. I never gave up on my painting and fiber art though. I got a new camera and it does great videos too so I decided to try making a "How-to" video and posted it on YouTube. That was fun and not hard to do so I will probably do more of them in the future. Here is the one I did, posted below.This video demos how to embellish an art quilt with machine felting. Before felting the yarn in the video I placed a piece of tule netting over it to hold it in place. Then latter it is easily removed. The netting does not felt into the other fibers easily.
Here is a photo of the finished art quilt. You can see that
I came back in and painted with metallic acrylic paint
and sewed coordinating beads in the spiraled area just
to repeat some of the colors from the interior motif of the
quilt.
"Peace Doves" 20 x 17
The interior motif of this quilt was machine felted with layers of craft felt then a dryer sheet and some wool roving and then some acrylic paint. I printed the outline of the doves on some white organza with the inkjet printer then outline stitched around them with metallic thread and trimmed excess fabric away from the edges. Then I came back and shadowed the doves with some interference acrylic paint. The stripped border is a dotted piece of quilting fabric that I felted purple felt from the back side. Then I couched and felted yarn around the edges and did some more beading.
Here is a photo of the finished art quilt. You can see that
I came back in and painted with metallic acrylic paint
and sewed coordinating beads in the spiraled area just
to repeat some of the colors from the interior motif of the
quilt.
"Peace Doves" 20 x 17
The interior motif of this quilt was machine felted with layers of craft felt then a dryer sheet and some wool roving and then some acrylic paint. I printed the outline of the doves on some white organza with the inkjet printer then outline stitched around them with metallic thread and trimmed excess fabric away from the edges. Then I came back and shadowed the doves with some interference acrylic paint. The stripped border is a dotted piece of quilting fabric that I felted purple felt from the back side. Then I couched and felted yarn around the edges and did some more beading.
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