Showing posts with label Fabric Landscape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fabric Landscape. Show all posts

Thursday, November 15, 2007

In the Misty Moonlight was so easy and fun. I spread Amanda's white and pale pink wool roving thinly across a preprinted piece of sky fabric, added glass and frame, and presto! Done. I think it looks really cool close up -- click on it to see. Now why do I spend so much time on those others???
This one I call Red Sky at Night and if you click on it you can see where I incorporated some of Amanda's hand dyed wool roving in the sky and behind the last mountain range.
And I added some decorative stitching at the bottom to represent foliage.
This one also has a western flavor -- I named it Sunrise. Lynn also "bought" this one!
This fabric landscape is Turquoise Mountain which is one I just "sold" to Lynn. It has quite a bit of stitching as opposed to the preceeding ones.

Saturday, September 01, 2007

This is the very first fabric landscape I made -- started in a class and finished at home. These are SO much fun. It's a little hard to see the details because of the glass but if you click on the image you can get the detail.

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Another tiny fabric landscape -- simple with no decorative stitching. This one is at the Damselfly shop.
I just love creating small fabric landscapes. This one is 5x7" and often I choose the frame and then make match the fabrics to it -- I am definitely a "color" mood person. The fun thing about this one is that I used the same fabric for the 1st and last mountain ranges -- I just turned it sideways and there were yellow and green streaks in it that weren't in the upper piece. I really like working with variegated fabrics, especially hand dyed ones. I also enjoy using the selvages from fabric as grass as in this one; some of the colors you get on fabrics are realy cool when frayed. This one is in the Damselfly shop.
I love working small and I believe this is the smallest fabric landscape I've made except for the fabric postcards. Sometimes I leave them very plan, no top or decorative stitching, and when I do I always put glass over them. Some people like them plain, others like a lot of stitching -- different strokes! This one is for sale in my booth.
This is a 4x6 fabric landscape. For some reason I am drawn to the Southwest although I've spent only a few days in Arizona. The colors just speak to me. This one is for sale in my booth.
Sometimes I use a "barely visible" frame and sometimes a "larger than life" frame for my projects. I wanted this one to feel like one was looking deep into the Southwestern dessert and to the mountains beyond. This is one of the fabric landscapes I have for sale in my booth.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The last of the handmade gifts. I can't BELIEVE I forgot to take a photo when it was framed. Chalk it up to the last minute rush. I made this small fabric landscape for my therapist, a wonderful doctor who has seen me through some very rough spots in life and to whom I will be eternally grateful!
I added some silk roving over the mountains to give a misty appearance-- pale blue and golden yellow, just before I added nonglare glass and a rustic handmade frame. I wanted to do a KY scene but my fingers kept pulling out those southwestern colors! Fortunately, she told me she has a couple of southwestern pieces in her home.

Friday, December 15, 2006

What I've been working on. I just completed and delivered this 8x10 fabric landscape to my dear friend Gina for Christmas. It was a lot of fun -- we both love Southwest scenes. I used my 30 year old Singer and it has a dog pattern on it. Gina has a Minpin she loves so this had to have a little doggy in it. I was afraid she'd think it was a coyote but she recognized the dog right off. Click on it to see the detail.