Here’s the sample from the last post, all stabilized, trimmed, quilted, and bound.
We got out the button jar today, and I pulled out a bunch of buttons to embellish the piece. We have a great button collection, thanks mostly to people who clean out their stashes and give them to us! Siegi, do you recognize any of your buttons here?
Some buttons will represent sea creatures and plants. The ones that closely match the background add a lot of interest to I like to include buttons that closely match the background. They don’t stand out visually, so you tend to discover them one by one as you return to a piece like this.
I probably won’t use all of them, but a woman likes to have choices.
In preparation for knitting the seaweed, coral, and other parts of the foreground, I chose the several colors you see here. I like to have a bright, dull, and dark version of most colors. For instance, can you see the pale peach, dull peach, and darker orange yarns in one corner? I’ll knit them all the same pattern (probably long, skinny stockinette st strips). Then I’ll appliqué the darker and dull colors in the background, and the pale peach on top, to give the illusion of depth. With any luck it will look like some kind of coral.
In the workshop, we will do just as I have done here: knit a background, and quilt it whole. We won’t cut it up and piece it back together, because we don’t have enough time. If you want to see a wall-hanging in the process of being pieced, have a look back at the very first post on the TextileFusion blog. 😊