Both halves of the black sky are Deb Lacativa dyed damasks, and I love that one trends red while the other trends green ...
The starry field is not-so-invisible basting worked in silk. The moon is cut from the selvage edge of a handwoven placemat.
Of course, this isn't exactly what I had planned. I had auditioned these pieces of cloth ...
Of course, this isn't exactly what I had planned. I had auditioned these pieces of cloth ...
and pieced them together ...
then invisibly basted them down with the expectation that I would reverse appliqué to reveal both white and a mottled "dark half" of the moon ...
But then I had second thoughts, confirmed by my in-house consultant, that it might be best to reverse appliqué only the half over the moon. So I unstitched, cut and reworked ...
with the result shown at the beginning of this post.
Phew. I've almost reached the half-way point with seven out of sixteen pages complete. Now I have more bases to make and more pages to compose.
I think I can, I think I can ...
