Textile Forum workshop

I spent a fab week at the Ballarat textile forum over Easter, doing a week long workshop with Meredith Wollnough. She is a very talented artist creating amazing  art pieces using her sewing machine and thread. Below is my final piece for the week. 

Sketch on tracing paper.

Transfer sketch to water soluble fabric, place in a hoop, begin free motion stitch technique.  

finished stitching.

rinse the fabric away, let dry then mount finished piece.

Paper hat

This punched heart flower is from a previous post, below is the progress for a paper hat/fascinator.

Components, everyone says the top hat looks like a tea cup! Oh well,

Antique look was achieved with sepia watercolour. Just needs to be attached to a head band and it will be completed.