"And Flowers Almost Poems" is 140 cm long, 30 cm wide -
It's strips of thin plain silk, little bits of heavier flowery vintage silk, strips of dupion stamped with characters like "love" and "peace" (and flower, beauty, grace, happiness, from a set of rubber stamps, put together to resemble lines of chinese poems). The parallel stitching functions as quilting, and with a bit more practice I'll be able to get nice smooth curves - 
"Rainstorms" was in the "Elemental" challenge--
It incorporates monoprints done on fabric with ordinary printing ink (I like the type of mark you get this way) -
and it also uses layers of overlapping sheer fabric -
3 comments:
These are both lovely pieces, Margaret. Can't wait to see the Lisa Walton workshop quilt completed..' eyelash yarn and all!
Gosh - thanks Margaret, they are beautiful..........
I managed to miss these completely at the festival :O( I wonder what category the first one where in?
I saw both your pieces at FoQ and took several photos of your 'elemental' quilt. I particularly liked the subtle quirky shape of the top .So many people go OTT when deciding it won't be a regular rectangle but you've achieved a lovely balance.
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