Here is what I have done so far with the Zentangle-doodled hand. This is a little challenge that my Anything Art quilt bee started last month. I was fairly pleased with my doodled hand, but in what context would a severed hand appear in a quilt? I don't do macabre!The first thing I decided was to fuse a white backing fabric to the hand, because the PDF (Prepared for Dying) fabric seemed a little thin to me.
I toyed with black and white solid and print combinations, but my delicate doodles seemed a little lost among the stronger prints. To set it off, I finally fused the hand to a gorgeous hand-dyed coral fabric.
added some patchwork in bright colors that was left over from another project. Now I had a crazy quilt going. But first, I added a bit of black lace to the wrist to avoid the amputated hand look! Now it is a gloved hand, or at least a glove! And some definite color pop is going on!
Some blue-green hand-dyed fabric surrounded the patchwork to give the eye a rest.
Now what? It needs something else. Maybe just quilt it, and then add some hand embroidery or buttons. Or more trim, a la crazy quilt.
This is just a fun project- no stress! Just playing!
4 comments:
Your doodled hand is fabulous and I love the lace cuff that you added!! I would be very tempted to push a bit harder on the crazy quilt theme with embroidery and some fun bits!!! Your Playing is just fabulous!!!!!
I like it! I think the B/W works great in the color-filled piecing! Very Inspiring...pokey
that is such a great idea! I love to doodle and it would be fun to transfer them to a quilt. What a fun piece to embellish.
I am just LOVING this.....it rocks....enough said.
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