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Thursday, April 24, 2014

What to do with the fabric - part 3

Colourgradation, warm from yellow to red, and cool, from green to blue. They want to dance, so I thought of a project to combine them. 


 Made a drawing on paperbacked fusible web and started cutting, for hours actually,


but loved the final result:


And lucky me (or did I think it over before I started dyeing :-), there was a second set of fabric that can be combined the opposite way:


A lot of stitching, as the piece is about 3 meters wide, but I like this zen-type of stitching, just following lines!


In this piece, the coloured fabric is really the Prima Donna. I humbly serve by stitching the fabrics together;-). Happy stitching to all of you and be the servant your fabric deserves!

10 comments:

  1. What a good servant you are!

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  2. how ever did you get it all to lie down flat and true cutting it out and then fusing it to background, I would probably distort or stretch it. Great result, very vibrant.

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  3. You don 't have to be so humble. You did a wonderful job.

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  4. It's beautiful. How did you keep it from distorting after it was cut and before fusing? I did something similar a few years ago and had a tangled mess that took forever to get fused down properly.

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  5. Absolutely stunning! Definitely something that would need some thought and patience, but well worth it!

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  6. Beautiful intricate work! You must have good eyesight.

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  7. Marvelous use of the fabrics! You certainly are the servant they deserve.

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