Many many years ago (over 30 at least!) I saved some pictures from an RSPB magazine of the artist
Colin Paynton's engravings. I admired his work and always knew that one day I would create a fabric panel based on his work. Well yesterday I made a start. I used a piece of heavy white egyptian cotton from the edge of an old sheet, some iron on wadding and linen for the backing. I cheated by enlarging the original picture and then traced the elements I wanted to use onto the fabric using a makeshift light table.
I then set up my sewing machine, selected some threads and began to 'quilt' the lines of the water. I used a variety of couched and sewn threads and a variety of stitches on my machine. At some point I changed my sewing foot to the freeform embroidery/quilting foot and inserted the supplied cover plate rather than dropping the feed dogs - then freemotioned the lines that were a little more wiggely. So far I am quite pleased with the result. I am keeping to the black and white colours and leaving the quilting to provide the 'shadows' and 'greys'.
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| Makower fabric - ? Stripe (name unknown) |
A lady from my quilting group responded to my plea of not being able to find small black and white prints and gave me a strip of the above fabric. It is perfect for the birds that I plan to applique onto the background.
This panel will be untouched for a couple of weeks now as I will be busy helping my daughter with her wedding invitations! Progess of those will be shown on one of my tab pages.
