2008
09.17
09.17
trees and foliage
I have been continuing to work on my rain forest design this week. This time I tried a new technique for adding leaves or foliage to the background, I applied fusible web to the back of small scraps of fabrics then snipped them into small pieces and applied them to the background. When I was happy with the placement I fused them in place and then used variegated cotton thread and a free motion zig zag to stitch over them. I was pleased with the way this turned out because it makes the background trees recede into the background and look more realistic. i did the same for the fallen leaves in the foreground, very time consuming but effective.
detail of forest plant
I added a small jungle plant in the foreground and embellished it with rayon threads for the leaf veins. The design is now ready to be quilted.
While I have been working on this design we have had some quite stormy weather here in Brunei, and I’ve been taking advantage of the windy conditions to get out on the water and do some wind surfing. Borneo is known as ‘the land below the wind’ because of its location near the equator and the fact that luckily we are out of the typhoon zone. This means that we don’t normally get strong winds but over these last few weeks we have been getting much better conditions than usual and a number of us have been able to get out on the water.
local beach view from the water
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