African Safari
I started with deciding that I wanted to felt the tree and make it my center piece.
After that I looked for fabric to use for the animals, I found the orange one with the exact scene I wanted and these African women that I fell in love with. I had grass fabric, and I added thread painting to it to make it more dimensional, and some Raffia to the bottom to give it more dimension and texture. I added a few beads to the ladies neck and wrist.
The outer edge I satin stitched and attached jute to keep that organic feel to it.
I learned a lot from this piece and had a lot of fun doing it.
Lots of lovely elements to look at.
ReplyDeleteI can see you had fun making this piece.
Love your ladies ... they are graceful and the outfits are perfect!
ReplyDeleteGood use of fabrics. I like your ladies
ReplyDeleteGreat contrast of the different environments of Africa. Love the ladies too.
ReplyDeleteI love your use of fabric motifs and the textured elements!
ReplyDeleteLove the raffia and jutte and felting the tree so it makes is more three dimensional
ReplyDeletelove all of your techniques- very effective
ReplyDeleteLove the felted tree and the ladies
ReplyDeleteLove the ladies, they have nice movement and style.
ReplyDeleteWow...I love how you achieved the quality of texture in this quilt. The fabric choices, the quilting, and the raffia all add to create quilt of texture for the eyes.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
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