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Thank you all so much for checking in and letting me know how you felt about my leaves. I have to say that I have not decided yet what I will do – leaves or no leaves. My daughter’s, Lisa and Stephanie, are my style mavens. Steph has not checked in, but Lisa has voted for no leaves. So her vote is weighted very heavily against any other votes. After making more leaves and playing around with them, I have decided that IF I use them, they need to make a statement and so they would cascade from top to bottom and go off both edges. Here is a photo with the leaves pinned. The leaves are quite transparent and echo the colors in the silk fabric of the quilt. It is really hard to photograph luminous fabrics and sheers. I have tried with and without a flash.
Here is a close-up. A caveat: The yellow looking fabric is really more of a lime-green. It is a piece of charmeuse dyed by our very own LizzieB.
If I do this, I plan to fuse each leaf to a background to make them sturdier and stitch veins and then attach them so that they are loose.
Look at what I am doing with Dot Calm!! I remembered to do some hand quilting with perle cotton BEFORE I added the back. It is not quite finished. Worked on it last night until my hand was numb.
Love that stitching on Dot Calm!
Dot Calm is simply amazing! The running stitch is perfect for it – I love the look!
Dot Calm is stupendous. I am so glad you got back to some hand work — I’m sorry you had numbness though. Everything in moderation, as they say. The leaves? Love the new brighter bits and the placement is definetely more inspired. I’m eager to see the results.
First….LOVE what you’ve done with Dot Calm. Great title too!
The leaves…I figure you’ll prolly lose them now that both daughters have weighed in, but in case you don’t, I agree with Liz. Before they were too scattered and carefully placed, but now they seem too bunched and yet still too carefully placed. If you keep them, I think you need something in between and something less planned-looking.
Love,
PainInTheAss 🙂
Yes! I LOVE the hand quilting on Dot Calm!
Ok…I’ll say my piece on the leaves…this is much better but I think you can still do better. The leaves need to flow left to right on a greater diagonal and from the top and across to the right side rather than on down to the bottom. I would like to see some zing in this…perhaps a complimentary color…some warm reds or oranges…it’s hard to tell the true colors with the computer. Right now I just feel it all mushes together and consequently it isn’t doing what you want. Your work is best when you incorporate more contrast…just my humble thought
wow, I love what you did to dot calm!
Ok, the leaves. You know that leaves are one of my favorite design motifs and I understand what you’re trying to do here, but i am going to have to vote: no leaves.
I love Dot Calm! What a great name. And I love love love that nice big running stitch. Great piece.