Numbers 24, 25, and 26

PROJECT:  Create 88 - 8" x 8" Canvases

PARAMETERS:  Fiber Art (including textiles, fabrics, gauze, cheesecloth, yarn, thread, embroidery floss, wool roving, and paper), mounted on 8" x 8" canvases.

GOAL:  Create hardcover book, showcasing this art.

A friend, Cora Mae, gave me some Shibori fabrics she had dyed.  I decided to use three cuts from the beautiful fabrics for today's pieces.

Cora Mae's Shibori Fabrics

#24 - The first picture is the cut piece of fabric:

Fabric used in #24

I saw a flower in this image.  I used a white POSCA paint pen to lighten the "petals."  Then I added extensive machine stitching.  I cropped the piece before adding the blanket stitch around the edges.

#24 - 8" x 8" canvas

#25 - the cut fabric:

Fabric used in #25

This time I envisioned a landscape.  First, I fused on a couple extra pieces of fabric near the bottom of the image.  Again, I used extensive machine stitching.

#25 - 8" x 8" canvas

#26 - I stared at this next fabric for a long time.

Fabric used in #26

In the end, I decided I couldn't really improve on the design.  (It's rotated a quarter turn in the next image.)  Like the others, this fabric was mounted on stiff interfacing.  After cropping, I added the blanket stitch around the edges, and called it good enough!

#26 - 8" x 8" canvas

Till next time...

Numbers 21, 22, and 23

PROJECT:  Create 88 - 8" x 8" Canvases

PARAMETERS:  Fiber Art (including textiles, fabrics, gauze, cheesecloth, yarn, thread, embroidery floss, wool roving, and paper), mounted on 8" x 8" canvases.

GOAL:  Create hardcover book, showcasing this art.

When I shop for fabric at the thrift stores, I look for blouses with lace, texture, or interesting patterns.  Today's three pieces make use of some of this fabric.
#21:

#21 - Lacy Fabric

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#21 - The lacy fabric spread out to show the detail

Here's the other fabric I used:

#21 - Second fabric

#21:  I used the first fabric for the flowers, and the second fabric for the vase.  The background is a piece of silk painted with black acrylic ink.  (The three, 4-petal flowers came from another blouse.)

#21 - 8" x 8" canvas

#22:  Most of the fabric for #22 came from the front of a sheer, flowered blouse, that had both lace trim and pleats.

Fabric used in #22

Thread painting and machine stitching with my Pfaff added flowers and other detail.  And here's the finished piece:

#22 - 8" x 8" canvas

Maybe you can see that I used some of the pleated fabric across the bottom of the piece?  I love texture!

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#23 started with a piece of crepe de chine I had painted with acrylic inks.  

#23 - Inked crepe de chine

I thought the ball of yarn would work well with this piece - which is why it's in the picture - but then I ended up not using the yarn.  Instead, I stitched on a piece of inked cheesecloth:

#23 - Inked fabric with cheesecloth

Not sure where to go with this one, I cut out circles from another blouse.  Though I'm not thrilled with this piece, I declared it finished!

#23 - 8" x 8" canvas

Till next time...

Numbers 18, 19, and 20

PROJECT:  Create 88 - 8" x 8" Canvases

PARAMETERS:  Fiber Art (including textiles, fabrics, gauze, cheesecloth, yarn, thread, embroidery floss, wool roving, and paper), mounted on 8" x 8" canvases.

GOAL:  Create hardcover book, showcasing this art.

# 18

# 18 - This piece started with needle felting wool roving.  I loved the colors, even though the wool makes a blurry-looking picture.

#18 - A detail from the stitched piece

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#18 - 8" x 8" canvas

Above is the finished piece - stitched, and mounted on an 8" x 8" canvas.

#19

#19 also started with needle felting.  I was envisioning a beach scene with a palm tree.

Fabric cut from a thrift store blouse

This brown fabric provided the trunk for the palm tree.

#19

I used cheese cloth, dyed with acrylic inks, for the beach sand.  White gauze formed the sea foam.  Once I had the tree trunk in place, I couched on green yarn for the palm fronds.

#19 - 8" x 8" canvas

#19 - Stitched, and mounted on an 8" x 8" canvas.

# 20 - Detail

I had colored some white lace from a thrift store blouse, using acrylic inks.  There's also some inked cheese cloth in the "hill."

#20 - Detail

#20 - The finished piece, mounted on an 8" x 8" canvas:

#20 - 8" x 8" canvas

Till next time...