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March 30, 2009

Background ready and a quandry

From Felted peaches


I strip pieced a background from a recycled silk skirt and cotton fabric. I meant to have the lines be more random but they ended up looking uniform, kind of. Now I'm working on samples to figure out how to attach them with thread painting to the background.

And now for the quandry. Here's my yoga tree.
From YogaTree
It started out as a Bead Journal Project 2" square concerning yoga. You can see the square in the middle. I decided to put it on this beautiful piece of hand dyed fabric from Anne Marie and stitched my heart out on the tree and embroidered the trunk. Then I thought I would like to make it as though you are looking through an arch and seeing it. So I added more fabric to it, don't like the seams, but that's what happens sometime, my project gets bigger than I expected. anyway... so then I've sewn on this beautiful vintage trim (from a vendor at IQF) and I've stitched it on several different ways and I'm not happy with any of them.

So I've decided to lay it out and try two ways and see what you think. What do you like, or how should I handle it? I don't want to cut it before I know I'll like it, so that's why I'm trying the trim, but I think seeing the rest of it outside the arch makes it hard to visualize. Hmmm...maybe I could stitch a stucco feeling/looking background and put it on top of it, creating an arch opening in the stucco top piece. hmmm..

anyway, here are some ideas.

From YogaTree
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From YogaTree


Here's another of the squares done for this project, this one celebrating a winter play day. Shh, don't tell anyone, but this is as far as I got on the BJP project....
From A Year in Beads

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Comments

If you are dead set on an arch, I would prefer that the curve start above the piecing point so that there are no cut off corners visible. I think you have room on the top piece. Try it and see if you like it. I'm not that fond of what you are using for the arch, though.

At this point, I'm thinking you will need to add something to the bottom of the panel as the tree seems to be dropping off the edge and if the arches continue below the tree trunk, you will achieve a feeling of depth... of seeing the tree in the distance through the arch.

:Diane

Posted by: Diane | March 31, 2009

There is nothing wrong with the piecing but if you want an arch it needs to be more substantial and needs to start almost on the outside edge of the piece of fabric, i.e. add more fabric and make the piece bigger. Maybe a trellis with leaves entwined? You could stitch some on disolvable and have them 3d. Some fme grasses would ground the tree. hth :)

Posted by: Wendy | March 31, 2009

I like the stucco idea with the arch in the stucco wall. Or the arch would work better if it were wider with the lovely trim part of it's decoration. The tree is great.

Posted by: Marti | April 02, 2009

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