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...