All That Glitters

Is not necessarily gold!



At first thought the word embellish triggered visions of Angelina fibers, wool and silk roving, foils, tyvek, beads, ribbons and all sorts of additives.  In the end however, I decided to go with the two of my most used embellishments... thread and paint.

I started with one of Vicki's hand dyed fat quarters and fused 3 full and two half flowers I cut from silk dupioni  to that background fabric.

The flowers were inspired by doodles in my sketchbook.

Then I painted the rest of the flowers on the background with textile paints and dry pigments; and lastly brushed a layer of Opal Dust over the whole piece.

Layered with two battings... cotton and wool, I embellished my flowers with thread. Again the stitched designs came right from the pages of my sketchbook.

Be sure to head over to the Fiberactions page to see what the other artists did with this "Embellish" challenge.