for the moment...

... the current obsession is stitched and painted Jacobean flowers...

This is small and will eventually be a cell phone bag. JZ has a direction page posted on her blog, here.

I added color with the Stewart Giles paints. I wanted to see how they showed on a different colored fabric.
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This block will eventually become a larger bag. The background is a moda, and the other fabrics are Vicki's hand dyes. This experiment was to see how the colors showed on moda compared to the original Fairy Frost. I imagine the results of the black moda would be similar to a black hand dye, which I had in mind.




The pink piece and this, were quilted first- then painted. There is more paint that needs to be added to the black flower, but you get the general idea of the look. I learned that I like to paint first, then quilt.


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And this is how the colors look on black Kona cotton. They paint up differently than they look in the jar, this will be a good key if I really start to get picky on color selection. I plan on getting more of these paints, I love them.