Page 109 - The Digital Cloth Issue 3

With that I did my usual The plan then was when I
technique of the collage flower quilt it I would leave space
from my many photos on a piece and a stem area and the
of calico, glued it lightly leaves so they are raised
into place and cut around the while the rest around the
flower. flower head etc. is
sitting flatter with the
heavy quilting. All quite
easy really and I had so
much fun doing my
celebrity coneflower Textile
Art Piece.

Stitch sahding The Garden
Gathering and auditioning the fabrics

I placed this onto a hand dyed
cotton background with a
tearaway stabilizer underneath the
hand dye fabric, hooped it all up
and heavily thread sketched with Stitching flower
95% Wonderfil threads of all sorts
of weights and tested out their
new Polyester 40wt,
Keeping this up until I was happy
how it looked.
I didn’t incorporate the leaves
really because I thought the ones
in my photo were distracting. In
this I actually decided to just
draw with the thread under the
flower with not too much detail.

collage and stitching Finished Coneflower