These were days of scarlet cheeks, candy pink and blush grey hair and mocha mushrooms! This combination really stretched the imagination, and the first day I resorted to a pre-stamped embroidery which I think summed up the week - wandering from colour to colour, subject to subject .. .. First came a couple of mushrooms - the background of these are machine stitched. Scraps of fabric are laid down on a base fabric and , using the decorative stitches on a sewing machine, rows and rows of stitching create the effect of a new background fabric. I often use this technique to create unique backgrounds for applique and feature stitching. The mushrooms are raw edged appliqued onto these essentially pinky red backgrounds. Do these colours make them fairytale like or just a bit sinister? You might have noticed a theme of red polka dots in these little works .... that just reminded me of red cheeks, and so a series of quirky characters was born .... a party girl, a pair of nerdy teenagers
Tag Tuesday' s theme is Spring Flowers. Of course, it's not Spring here in Australia, but that doesn't matter - anytime is a good time to celebrate flowers. My tags were little 'nature notes" I created for #the100dayproject, where I am responding to colour prompts, #coloricombo, curated by Este Macleod. The first is a collaged "tag" with a painted background (watercolour) and a blue flower ( fabric) appliqued and stitched. The tag itself is a scrap of inked paper with magazine text. The second tag is a another collaged "nature note" with postage stamp. Torn paper and fabric have been used on a background of white washed print and my own garden notes. The third, strictly speaking does not depict flowers, but those little gum nuts were once flowers and if you look carefully, the snippet of fabric in the right bottom corner is a floral print. All of these are responses to the colour combination of soft blue, pea green, green gold and gua