Barbed wire and Beauty

17" x 17.5"

paint on fabric

hand and machine quilted

This small art piece I created in the textile artist group on fb. The idea was to try all sorts of mark making tools, cut it up and stitch it back together. Since quilting is my thing I cut apart and stitched back together with hand work and machine work. 

"Barbed wire and the beauty beneath" is an ode to the pasture land my husband and I have been trying to clean up. Beneath all the grass and dead trees were huge rolls of barbed wire and fencing wire. Lots of rocks and old fence posts and numerous other things. 

I randomly painted on an old sheet. Cut it up and fitted it back together where some marks overlapped.  I added bits of magenta paint and found in my paint drawer a piece of sheet that my quilt bee group and I played with shaving cream and paint. It went with my layout so I used it. 

I randomly hand stitch bits and then layered my pieces on a piece of organdy. I used a black batting to keep it from looking bright white. The batting worked great but I found I could not stitch out in the outer edges without bringing up the black fuzz from the batting onto the white organdy. It is fine ...I think. 

This was a fun project and perfect for sitting quietly and pondering life. 

Linking up with Susan for Midweek makers

and

Sandra hosting TGIFF

and

Kelly at NTT My quilt infatuation

and

 Put your foot down @for the love of geese

and 

Finish or not friday @ Alycia quilts

and 

Michelle @from bolt to beauty

Wendy's Peacock party

and Nina Marie @HERE of the wall friday