Finishing Touches! (almost!)

Thank you for all the suggestions about what to put on these backgrounds.
Of course this one has the ubiquitous bird. Those of you who are familiar with my work over at thebluehare will know what I mean by this.

Then again I suppose hares are a bit of a recurring theme for me too.

This is where the "almost" from the title of this post comes in, as these were added using Photoshop. It took me so long to erase the background from the hare that it would probably have been quicker to stitch them!

So, for the last two, I resorted to Paint, which I know is not ideal but I am so keen to get on with other things at the moment, and I haven't really decided what I want to put on these myself yet.

So I will leave you with my juvenile attempts at digital art, while I ponder some more on how I am going to finish them. Rest assured I will show you when I am done.

Linking up with Off the Wall Friday!

Landscape Backgrounds continued

I have been meaning to post about the stitching that I added to the backgrounds for days. Every time I sat down to do it I realized that there was one I had not taken a photo of. I would then get distracted by something else. Finally got my scatty brain into action!

The pictures speak for themselves. Lots of easy straight line stitching. The colour and the choice of thread do the work.

I did change the stitch size on this one. Making it bigger as I moved towards the foreground, to try and portray some depth. Not sure if it works or not.
Next time, the focus of each piece.
What would you put on these backgrounds?

fabric friday

I had fun doing this one:)
Linking up with Nina-Marie's Off The Wall Friday.

Landscape Background Options

Using the Fabric Scrap Rolls that I showed you in my previous post, here are the backgrounds I have created.
The Seascape above was done by tearing the strips of fabric into roughly 1/2 inch and heat setting them onto the surface of a fusible wadding/batting. The edges are deliberately left raw.

I took the green fabrics and ironed them to a fusible and cut them into roughly 2 inch squares. Along with some blue squares I made the scene below.

Countryside

Hillside

Hillside was made by cutting up the leftover square from Countryside into smaller pieces and changing the aspect from landscape to portrait.

Beach Scene

Finally I pieced together some strips for the beach scene.
All of the above were done with two rolls of blue, one green and one yellow.
You could try this with any blue, green, and yellow scraps, or you could get some of your own hand painted rolls here or here :)
Next time I will show you how I stitched them.

Wouldn't you know....

...that the sun would start shining  now that the summer holidays are officially over!
As you can see, from the shadows on my deck this morning, the sun is out!

I have just listed these Fabric Scrap Rolls in my shops (links in my side bar).
Next time I will explore some ways of using these to create some small landscape quilts.

The basket was made by my friend Clare.

fabric friday

fabric friday

A huge thank you to all those who came to say hello at the Festival of Quilts.
It was great to finally meet those I have "known" through the Internet.
It was great to see friends and familiar faces.
It was a lovely surprise to see some I didn't expect to see.
It was  great meeting new people.
To all of you, thank you for making my experience at the show so wonderful.