Art Every Day, Sunday, August 25, 2013

Here is today's new piece.  I had a blast doing it.  It began with a layer of bright yellow silk gauze layered on top of a piece of  silk noil that is dyed in tints of red, red violet and red orange.  I stitched the two layers to some batting with a pale blue thread in a wavy cross hatch.  

Then, I started stitching the swirls in a bright turquoise.  There is some very heavy thread painting in the largest swirl.  I love laying on all that thread.  It's a lot of fun to do and the curly, swirly design is a visual feast.  After all of the quilting was done I went through the piece cutting away sections of the grid here and there to reveal some of the silk noil from below.  

It was a good day.

Till tomorrow,

Heather