- Variations on a theme: Close Your Eyes, the second edition

The text of Griffin's lullaby book will be the same as Jace's, but the images will be revised ... re-visioned ... taking lessons learned the first time around and turning them into another way of getting to the same place.

For instance, after a chorus of comments about the b-sides shown here, I decided the new edition will be made with the intention of showing both sides ...

Unlike the first spinning old world that was silk appliqued onto denim,
in this version I basted the silk onto muslin, cut a mask in the denim, then appliqued the denim onto the silk/muslin

Which means I'm burying all the knots where they can't be seen ...

I tend to work a little tight (it's a personal issue), but I'm okay with the puffiness of the center ...
it gives the inner circle an interesting sense of movement on both the back and the front,
which is why I liberated the silk from the invisible baste stitches that held it down during the applique process.

But as I added thread bead stars to the spinning old world, I realized I could have made the invisible baste more visible in the first place and saved myself going back a second time. 

So I intentionally made the white invisible basting stitches more visible around the rising moon ...

Since the invisible baste is worked with a single strand, the stars appear as pinpoints

It's subtle, but I like how the back looks and feels ...

BTW, this page is not yet complete ... there are tree branches yet to be added  as they were here