Fabric Picture

I spent yesterday evening making a fabric picture of Sirena; its 8" tall. Yep...still using those little shells!!!

I got a delivery of merino wool top from Wingham Wool a few days ago (you'll never guess what colours - yes, blues, greens and purples!) Time to go and do some felting I think......

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Wherever you are in the world......have a wonderful weekend!

Sirena

For the first time in ages I had a whole day to myself today so I decided to think about 2 themes.......shells (again for the ABAA challenge) and painted fabric (something I've been playing around with for weeks). And so I created Sirena (Italian for mermaid). She's 12" tall.

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I painted the fabric for her body with acrylics, then added torn tissue text and flowers (with gel medium), handwriting and stamps. I then machine-stitched flowers, Angelina and strips of fabric onto the front.

I painted the face and dirtied her up a bit with a green chalk stamp, then added those gorgeous fibres from Stef Francis for the hair. Finally I glued shells into her hair and round her neck using Trim-It glue.

She's only roughly made!

Here's the painted and collaged piece of cream calico which I used for her body.

I think this is the first thing I've ever made that I actually feel really happy with.

This is a theme I will develop........