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I like to work on things in a series. One of the watercolor paintings in my gallery is of a sunflower in a vase. I have always wanted to do this as a fiber art piece, and decided to make a series of fiber art pieces based on this painting.
My first step was to trace the primary lines from my painting and then make enlargements of this tracing so I had various sizes to choose from.
Next I trace the painting onto fabric using an iron erasable pen.
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| A trapunto layer of batting |
This fabric has my tracing on it. I wanted to give the vase a little loft, so I put a fluffy layer of batting behind it and sewed around the edge of the image. I then trimmed all the batting outside of the sewn edge. This is a form of trapunto.
Next I layered the trapunto'd top with batting and a back and pin basted it.
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| starting the thread painting |
Here I have started my thread painting of the image on fabric. I have a bit more to do, and I will make a new post once it is further along.
