What do you do with all those threads, trimmings from squaring up blocks, snippets, yarns, foil candy wrappers, and bits of fabric too small to keep? Composed Fabric!
Lay out a piece of fabric for a base. It doesn't matter what it looks like as it will get covered up. Lay on a piece of fusible which will help hold things together later. Then start sprinkling on your snippets,, trimmings, loose threads, candy wrappers, yarns, etc. Go to town with this! When you have everything more-or-less where you want it, top it off with a piece of tulle. Try different colors for different effects. Here, I went with black because it tends to look invisible. Fuse it all together. I still pin it in places just to keep things from spilling out the sides. Then stitch it all together with your favorite free-motion stitch. Voila!
Here's the back side. Someone gave me this really hideous fabric a while back. It was perfect as a base for this composed fabric, because the print gets completely covered up with the snippets.
Here are some close-ups of different areas of the piece :
Do you see the Quaker Oats guy in this one? [What can I say? Nellie always hides Elvis in her work someplace. For me, it seems to be the Quaker Oats guy!]
These are destined to become journal covers in the coming weeks. ;-)
1 comment:
Cool! You've been doing the same thing I've been doing lately!
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