Rarely, if ever am I happy with what I create in a workshop. I took a curved piecing workshop oh so many years ago. In that workshop, a very kind lady gave me a piece of pink floral fabric because the colours went so well with the colours I was using. True, the colours matched but the style of that fabric was so wrong. Over the years I have returned to that piece to try to make it right and had no success, see the top photo. I have wanted to throw it out but just couldn't bring myself to do that. This week I decided to cut it up to see what would happen. I used my favourite tree shape as it always makes me happy. I then applied some gold transfer foil and some gold fabric paint (an ode to Klimt). I quite like these trees! I think I have enough to create one more of them. I am not exactly sure what I will do with these trees but it will come to me.
On another note, I do an art program with seniors. Yesterday while teaching I chatted with one of the volunteers. She is an avid quilter. She has agreed to sew together blocks that I have my seniors create. We plan to then auction/raffle off the quilt so they can use the money for more programs. My seniors have very limited abilities and we won't be able to sew our blocks. I am thinking of having them paint/stamp their blocks. Any other suggestions/ideas?
I am linking to
https://www.quiltfabrication.com/
http://www.esthersquiltblog.com/
http://needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com/
Would they be able to stencil? Colour a bit with fabric crayons? Even a scribble can be a contribution.
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