More Small Projects

I mentioned Julia Gahagan last week - in fact my blog is lagging a little, as I took part in her workshop at the end of January!

These were the items that I created during three hours in a Zoom workshop with her.

First of all a book mark and card topper ( actually I made the card topper first, realised how much my top layer knocked the colours of the collage back, so tried a bookmark with more saturated colours.

These are the backs so you can see the quilting.

Fun to use the fancy stitches on the machine in a straightforward way to add interest to the back ground.

As you can see, my little bird is a little clumsy, but I gave it my best shot without using any tracing or marking.....

This was the A4 piece that I made during the workshop.

Again, I went for saturated colours, on the whole, that toned with the vintage embroidery taken from a tray cloth.

Fun to add so many different elements to a small peice.

Again, this is the reverse to show the quilting.

The day after the workshop, whilst I still had my scraps out and a good memory of what we'd been encouraged to to, I made this A4 piece.

Again, using the vintage tray cloth as a centre piece to it, and this time personalising the FMQ embellishment.

 

The following day I was still enthusiastic - and with all the scraps still out, decided to make three more card toppers!  I stuck with fairly neutral backgrounds for these three, and with so few pieces on each card, I decided that I didn't need the overlay for them. 

I'm pleased with all of these pieces.  I'm sure that 'proper' artists would do even better with the composition, but I'm happy that I've done the best I could without spending too much time stressing over it!