Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Homesteading

This is The Land as the Crow Flies as it stands right now (about 40" wide by 19" high) ...


Over the past few weeks it has morphed considerably from green grids of cloth weaving laid out linearly ...


to various trials at angles ...


along with a fair bit of design mending as I realized I wasn't happy with some of my fabric choices.

There was also consideration of how and where to eventually place the house ...


and how to represent the stone wall boundary lines (torn strips of linen rolled between the fingers and couched down with two strands of floss), as well as the topographic elevation contours (detached backstitch worked with two strands of variegated floss) ...


So far, so good.