This month's topic at Stitch Club was embellishing printed fabrics. Techniques such as broderie perse and crazy quilt patchwork were included.
Hand embroidery work has been a soothing pastime for me recently, so I was interested in exploring an October project. I found a nice fat quarter that featured a moth motif and some surrounding floral designs that seemed like a promising place to start. I wasn't sure what parts of the fabric I wanted to use, so I cut around one entire repeat of the print, thinking I could trim it down later when things were more defined. But as soon as I cut into the fabric, the moth and flowers were no longer what I saw.
Here's where I began:
And here's where I ended up:
My project became a calavera, a representation of a Mexican sugar skull for
I'm calling her Clara,
after Clare of Assisi, patron saint of needleworkers. She is keeping watch over my sewing room.
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