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| Patch #50 |
One of my goals with the daily patch project is to document the approximate first appearance of our wildflowers. I was caught without my iPhone camera, so this patch was crafted using an image printed from the Wildflower Center's online guide ...
As you might imagine, I was happy beyond words to see how well Deb Lacativa's cloth worked, so I drew the image outline with a Pitt pen ...
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then appliquéd it to a gray green linen, mindful of the statement about color from the Arts & Crafts Textiles book by Ann Wallace ...
I won't necessarily do future flower patches as precisely as this, since abstracting forms sounds like a fun challenge. Maybe I'll even do one back-to-front ...
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| 'cause I do love b-sides |
Addendum:
After mending J's jeans last week, I decided I should probably look to my own. Not only were they shredding above the patched knees, but there was a mysterious spot of something that resisted all attempts at laundering ...
Glue maybe? Whatever it is has an annoying look and feel to it ... well worth covering over.
Anyway, I realized how far I've come as I quickly stitched on patches ...
confident that two threads here, one thread there, and a combination of back and running stitches would do the trick.
wow this is a beautiful piece Liz !
ReplyDeleteOh Mo ... with your background in botanical illustrating and gardening it means the world to me that you like this!
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