After a week taken up with lots of work and little play, it was a nice treat today to be able to attend a full-day workshop with Janet Bolton, a textile artist whose work I really love. It's very different from my normal style, but something about it just works. This workshop was great, and quite productive - I managed to get the better part of this piece done (all hand-sewing - yes, I know, that's amazing too) though I have appliqued the bird and added the buttons since I got home. Next step is lots of quilting (hand) in the background to give some texture, and some windows and/or doors on the houses.
Here's a very washed out closeup of the bird - the colour is much truer in the photo above. I've put quite a bit of stitching on the wing, as well - not sure it shows in the photo.
This piece is fairly large (compared to most of Janet's work) - I guess it's about 12" high - but I didn't think I could handle the teeny tiny applique so I thought I better work bigger...
5 comments:
Cute.
Love and hugs Gina xxx
Looks great...Lovely to treat yourself to a class :o)
Glad you had fun at the workshop. The piece is certainly different from anything I've seen you do, but it is very cute and interesting (in a good way). Such a lot of hand sewing, though. I'd never get something like that done!
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Your Janet Bolton piece is wonderful. I was lucky enough to attend a workshop with her a while back and had a fabulous day, her work is amazing. Like you say I can't ever imagine being able to work as small as she does though
This is adorable. Love the grass.
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