Sewing Landscapes!

As I prepare for a show in October, I've been busy, busy, busy, sewing and framing landscapes. Here are a few in-progress photos…

I did this picture last year, but added a few more touches, as well as a linen mat and a frame.

This is an older picture which, again, I touched up and matted, and I will add a frame.

 

I'm sewing some French knot flowers in the foreground here - again it will have a mat and frame.

This picture combines faux suede, cotton and kimono fabric scraps. I'm keeping it pretty simple. 

This is the lace tree from my last post. I need to add a few more touches to this.

I worked for years in art and framing galleries and my experience is coming in handy lately.

This is my trusty hand mat cutter. It does a good job and I have a lot of mat board scraps to use.

There are a few more pictures which I'll show later. The show is October 15, so I'm in pretty good shape. I keep saying that this is the last show I'll do, with landscapes at least. They are a lot of work! What I'm looking forward to doing is more fun things - little stitched sketches, some collages, maybe a doll or two? I do have a little crafty addition I'm working on for this show - I'll post pictures next time!

I hope that everyone who reads this is enjoying these final days of summer.

Coming up - my favorite season:

F A L L

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Have a great rest of the week!!

Work in Progress

I'm about to go out for the day, driving an hour south to visit my sister. But before I left, I wanted to post about what I'm working on today. I had begun this textured landscape during AEDM in November, but felt that it needed something more. This morning I played around with fabrics and some wool roving, and now feel happy with this more complete picture, in the planning stages right now, but moving in a good direction.

Of course, the elements need to be sewn down and needle felted...

and maybe I will crop it and make it a vertical piece.

Time will tell, but I'll be working on this more when I get home later in the day!

Hope your day is going well.

Thanks for visiting!

Work in Process

I've been working on this landscape lately,

made with tulle and sheer fabrics layered over each other

and fused with "Mistyfuse".

I found that you can tear netting/tulle on the bias to get some nice ragged edges,

and the layers of colors blend together like watercolors.

I used yarns to suggest hedges and even a bit of olive green lace 

at the bottom for a vine-y look.

A sheer fantasy landscape!

Next I'll go back in with some machine stitching and possibly mount it,

with ragged edges showing, on a linen-wrapped canvas.