paintings, ramblings
A bag commission containing THREE of my favorite creations of nature- butterflies, peacock feathers and faeries!! Heres the front design of the bag, fabric layout and no stitching -I’ll explain later!! 🙁 and heres the inside pocket- for glitter stashing and gum wrapper trashing- Nature is good, but the mechanical world of my sewing machine …
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I named this one “Rose Under a Crescent Moon”. Size is 16″ wide by 24″ long. All hand painted fabrics, vintage lace and silks, free motion embroidery and applique etc etc…I combined SO many methods I have been studying and practicing!!! OhhhEEE- and her hair is silk from an antique wedding dress! Shiny silky white. …
“Dried White Roses” In this painted and quilted wall hanging I’m exploring the similarities between dried white roses and vintage lace. I recently received a variety of beautiful, delicate old lace. The colors were fabulous- shades of antique white and sepia, aged and stained to perfection. I have a bunch of dried white roses by …
Two beautiful fairies, and gave me the idea to post this corset belt that was part of my Halloween costume last year. I was an leafy elven creature. To make this, I sewed on silk ivy leaves, and then used green fabric paint to cover the places where I couldnt sew leaves (like around the …
Just in time for summer, I bought BAGS FULL of old fabrics, lace, satins, silks, buttons, trims…the list goes on. I spent a good part of yesterday washing it all. Now I’m waiting for it to dry so I can sew bits and pieces of the fabric fragments onto my fabric paintings!! Heres a small …
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Here’s some more photos from Spoutwood Farm Fairie Festival.
I had such a wonderfully enchanted time at the Fairie Festival at Spoutwood Farm in PA!!!! Heres a few of my fae friends, the *~lovely~* gals Cherie, Shannon and Rachael. The setting of the festival is amazing, rolling hills and trees!!! and heres me looking for little winged creatures on the Spoutwood Farm Fairie trail… …