This is my finished piece (11.5" x 16") for the The Eyes Have It challenge!.
I started working on my vision for this piece while in Florida. I initially wanted to have a piece with animal eyes in it but then decided on a flower created from eyes! So I started off with a Google search of eyes, selected different color, size and shapes of eyes and printed them onto white fabric with fusible on the back. I cut out each eye and started to layer into a circle, starting with the largest eyes first. Then the fun began! Organizing the different sizes into the shape of a flower!
This was my final circle of eyes...which I fused to the muslin then I cut away from the back the muslin so you couldn't see any of it from the front (with exception of the center).
Once I was satisfied with my layout, I fused the eyes to a piece of white muslin but just around the middle of the flower. I did this because I wanted to fuse the eyes to my background after it was quilted. I free motion quilted leaves on the whole background using brown thread.
Next up was the layout on where to place the eyes and create the leaves....flowers have leaves on their stems, right! I sandwiched two layers of green fabric between some batting then traced different shape leaves onto the fabric. Next I free motion quilted the outline of the leaves then I cut out each leaf. I did color some of the edges with a green marker if the white batting showed too much.
Next, I played around with making some stems, which I wrapped with a piece of brown bias fabric I had in my stash around a piece of bias green fabric I had fusible already on! Then I added my leaves where I thought they might look good. And I had to add some 'eyes' inbetween some of the leaves!
Once I was happy with that, it was time to start to work on the center of my eye flower! For this, I used my tailor tack foot which worked perfect.
When I was totally finished with the edging and sewing down all the leaves, I did go back and snip some of the tailor tack threads.
I had fun coming up with this challenge and really had fun creating a piece for it! Hope you enjoy my process!!!
Thank you Robbie for generously sharing your working process with us. I am always fascinated to see how other people develop their ideas. What made you select the idea of using a flower?
ReplyDeleteNot sure how the 'flower' idea popped up in my head...it was kinda creepy looking at first but I do like it! HA
DeleteHoly smokes! How neat is that?!! You are a creative genius!!
ReplyDeleteNot really creative...just wanted something different for eyes....this was a stretch! HA
DeleteThank you Robbie... this is so fun. I really enjoyed you sharing your process..
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed seeing the process, Nancylynne!! I enjoy myself to see how folks go about creating their pieces!
DeleteStunning ! I love the 3D leaves and the eye buds. Very imaginative and playful - the environment is watching us.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nancy! See....I don't think 'deep'! But glad you mentioned that the "environment is watching us"!!
Deletegreat fun :) and very inspiring!
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun piece to work on wasn't it! Just playful!
DeleteHaha..this is wicked ! love those creepy eyes behind the leaves !
ReplyDeleteI kept telling my friends I was making a "creepy" quilt! It is but it was fun too!
DeleteGreat fun and I love the description of the process. Still trying to figure out how you used the tailor tack technique, although I found a tutorial and understand the dress making use.. had to do that when I learned to sew clothes, especially those with darts.
ReplyDeleteRobbie you always show great ideas and here is another, and I love your 3D .
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