I have been working on a new textile piece in my apple blossom series. The background was constructed out of collaged fabrics which I had painted, stamped and stencilled. After I had arranged the pieces on a calico background, I stitched them all down with rows of running stitch by sewing machine in a slightly haphazard way so that the look was not too perfect
I then took some simplified flower designs from my apple blossom sketchbook, traced them onto bondaweb, ironed them onto the backs of different fabrics and cut them out. I played around with the arrangement until I was happy with the spacing and ironed them on after removing the backing paper. I then sewed around the edge of each one with a free machine embroidery stitch using black rayon thread.
I bonded on some more blossoms and some leaves in the same way and stitched them on with some green and pink rayon threads.
I have stitched around each piece several times so that edges are not too precise.
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