Sew Sunshine

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 lookin...

Okay, I am just going to say right up front that this challenge was very hard for me. I am not really into red, white and blue and when you think of "Independence" that sort of goes hand in hand.  So...I decided not to do this challenge because nothing came to mind.  This morning (yes the night before the challenge is due) I decided to try cutting into a fabric group of fat quarters that I have been hoarding for way too long. I decided there are so many other ways of thinking of independence so why not go for it.  July Challenge and linking up with   Project Quilting by Persimon Dreams : "Magnolia Day" 9" x 19" I have three coordinating fabrics of this Magnolia fabric that I love and never wanted to cut it up. I just posted to another blogger today that when you hold onto those fabrics we love, the spell it has over us can be broken when you decide to cut into them  and what you make from them you might fall in love with too.  This is so t...