Ugh! I had a whole post with ideas in it, but then screen froze & I lost it.
Really love the fabric! Here are a few ideas of what I might do with it depending on the rest of my decor:
1) Mount it to an artist's canvas. It's really beautiful on it's own!
2) Create quilted throw pillows with it. Can't tell if it is dimensional or a print. If it's a print, I'd do straight line quilting following the lines of the printed design in either a dark charcoal or a dull black. I'd just quilt it to some W&N batting & add a pillow form. Would be nice either with a solid backing or with the beautiful fabric on both sides -- depending. And I really think it would look pretty as a neckroll.
3) If it's a print, fussy cut strips of it to make a quilt like Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry's Fibonacci Sequence series (
http://www.bryerpatch.com/gallery/fibonacci_quilts.htm)
4) Use as a background for appliqued wall quilt. I could see this going a few different directions. If it's dimensional rather than a print, I'd probably back my applique pieces by sewing to a piece of muslin & turning inside out, and then using a washable glue to temporarily affix to the fabric.
For a more
formal look, I'd do the applique entirely in black, white, grey, or a combination thereof -- and would make it realistic. I'm debating between a cityscape or shadows of African dancers (I saw a pattern in AQ magazine a few months back that I really loved & it would look great with your fabric as the background), though even a pine forest could look really nice -- like Northern Lights.
For a more
artistic look, I'm reminded of Libby Lehman's work using reverse applique. The fun thing about that is you just pick several fabrics (prints, solids, blends, whatever) that coordinate with your background fabric and just keep layering & cutting until you get something you like. Just to give you a super rough idea of how that works:
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You start with the main fabric, then I'd layer the lights next & the darks on top of that. Then, stitch & carefully snip through the top layer to reveal the lighter fabrics & snip further to have your background peaking through the middle. It's a lot of fun to make because if you don't love it at any particular stage, you just keep adding and/or cutting until you get something you do like.
