I am a baby-beginner in the multi-media art quilt field and loving the 'kindergarten' freedom of playing without worrying about a grade! After I have made a raft of my own mistakes (how I learn best and keeps the 'brainstorming' aspect alive) I will watch/read tutorials and find out how I am 'supposed' to do things. This work in progress is composed of vertical magazine page and fabric horizontal, interwoven, just like the hot pads I wove on the metal loom as a child, or the construction paper place mats we made in school for holiday parties. I am not quite sure where to go from here on this piece, besides fixing the lumpy mountain and deciding on a shape for the whole thing... Round? Square?
This is my first try at thread painting an entire scene. Unlike the swan triptyche, this is an actual photo printed on interfacing in color and then thread painted to accentuate. I started with an exquisite photo taken by a friend, Kaye Wilson of New Zealand. I have plans to try the same scene using fabric collage, perhaps with some thread painting... and I want to do this scene once more with thread painting, as in 'practice makes perfect' or in my case, 'at least improvement'. But it doesn't have to be perfect to be fun!
