Jan 31
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

jude – this one's for you!

I am very pleased with myself over this one. I dreamed it up Friday night, and it looks exactly the way I thought of it.

It is tricky to see in the picture, but it really is nothing but circles held in a grid of stitching. I used two layers of water soluble stabilizer, one that has sticky material to hold things in place and a plain layer over the top to keep the presser foot of the machine from sticking to it. With extra thread in the top and shiny in the bottom, it looks lovely either way up.

I offer also this vision of it against the window…

Jan 30
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.

If I use something that is translucent, it is still possible to see the weavings as they run/flow in and out of the holes in lower layers. This is a better direction, and closer to what I was thinking about with some of the earlier ones. I used 3 layers of silk organza painted with Dynaflow – a very loose fabric paint that leaves the weave open and flexible. I used the twill to sop up the extra paint, and it looked so integrated that I added it as a bottom layer, to give the eye a stopping point.

I could use layers with more visual heft, and only have two. The organza is very wifty.