I have a bag full of fabric, sketches and some small quilt blocks that have been languishing in my closet for too long. The time has come to start working in earnest on this quilt. The tipping point came when I decided to organize the blocks around a medallion center. I chose this photograph as the feature image.
After making a sketch,
……. yesterday I grabbed my last piece of white fabric and painted it a sea green color with Dye-na-flow paint. I used a “mask’ and some stones on top of the fabric while it dried in the sun to reserve a turtle-like shape.
Now I can select some fabrics to applique on top of the base fabric. Here is a selection that will be used to make the sea turtle.
Once I get the shapes cut and fused to the base fabric, I will hand paint any needed details.
This is a short post. I’m keen to keep my momentum going. More details will be revealed soon.
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This looks great so far. The best moment of my life* was when my husband and I were in Maui and I was bobbing about in the sea and a green turtle came under me, spent some time at the bottom and then came up for air right next to me. I squealed a little down my snorkel, it came closer to me and I tried to back away a little, it’s fin touched my arm, it went under and with the slightest of movement … whoosh it swam off. Magical. (*I don’t have any children).
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Great story. I’ve been practicing drawing and painting sea turtles. I hope this one comes out well.
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