Creative Swap Challenge..

Well, what a week!!

I am so glad that it is Friday, it has not been a good week at work and a career change would greatly enhance my life but enough of that! Onto better things.

I have just heard that my Creative swap challenge has arrived safely in America and will be passed onto someone else at some point to I can now show it to you.

The theme was 'Blue and Brown' and other ideas linked to sprin, new life etc. I signed up early for this challenge but spent ages scratching my head. The colour combination threw me at first but then a day out shopping with Sophie sorted me out.

I found some wall paper which I liked and felt went well with the theme and scanned it, then printed it onto fabric which is paper backed and will go through a printer.

When the paper is removed the fabric can be stitched into and drawn on etc. I have never used it before and I would buy it again. I then went back to my trusty sketchbook and tried out some ideas with quilting, embroidery, brads etc.

I made four mini quilts each 6 inches x 6 inches. The edges had to be neated and ready for the recipient to make them into whatever they wanted.

I quilted randomly around the edge of the plant detail, used t-shirt transer paper for the bird and then added detail with brads etc. On the leaves I used fabric pens.

This square was similar but I added a butterfly and words to the quiltie. I used an overlocking stitch on my machine to neaten the edges.

This is one of my favourites, after scanning and printing the image I then wanted to give it watercoloured look. So by carefully blending the fabric pens and then highlighting some of the areas with machine embroidery. The same was done tothe leaves. Again words were added.

Finally...

This sample does not show up the machine embroidery detail in the photo quite as well but the same approach was applied.

I am really pleased with them and together they look really good. It was one of the hardest things I have done lately in terms of theme and colour and I hope the person who recieves them feels the same.

I have also finished some other things which I will be posting over the weekend. Sophie is taking part in her first little ballet production tomorrow to mark the end of the ballet year. Really looking forward to that at about 2pm tomorrow.

Bye for now and take care.

XX

PS. My world map has got so many red spots could we try something? If you visit this blog could you just let me know which part of the world you are in?

I shall start off because I think it would be really cool to see where we are all blogging from.