Back in June at a workshop with Jeanette Appleton I made a reasonably large piece of felt inspired by lichen covered rocks. Ever since then I have looked at this piece , thinking what an earth should I do now with you ????
I eventually decided that something about it did not really work and maybe I should just use parts of it! Eventually I made a mask out of brown paper thinking maybe make it into a three part piece. I liked the effect even though it was not choosing my favorite parts with this simple mask.
So I thought how about choose three parts , and make them into a large felt piece. The more I thought about this the more I liked it . So a made the radical decision to cut my favorite parts out of this large felt piece and reconstruct it.
I faffed around for ages choosing this size of the cuts and then the spacing and the size of the piece to put them in. Then I made another large felt piece using the dark brown Masham that was incorporated in the original piece , plus some orange merino to lift it a bit. Then with my template I cut up both pieces with my rotary cutter. No way back now !
I stitched them together invisibly and then used iron on interfacing to make a robust join.
Does it work ? Well I think it does. It is far more dramatic and .. …..
….and maybe it just needs a little bit of stitching.
Teri Berry
18 Oct 2015I love the bottom two panels and how they spill out of their frames onto the Masham background but I’m not so convinced by the blue top piece, maybe it needs some of the colours (the green?) from the other 2 panels to make it “relate” better to them?
jane_mercer
18 Oct 2015Thanks for your suggestions , I agree green is one of the colours I think I need to add.