Originally Posted by
petthefabric
Love what you've done. And wonder how you've done some things. Is the yellow/brown and ombre or hand dye or what? I can see a hand dye with resists. Is the dark brown weeds confetti? Love the sun affect in the quilting and the weeds in the quilting.
Thanks quiltnnan and petthefabric! It's collaborative piece with my partner. He's also an artist. His mediums are printmaking, photography and collage. This piece started out as two photographs that he took years ago, then he combined them into a digital collage, worked some more digital magic and had Spoonflower print it on nice quilting fabric. Normally he would have done the printing himself, but his printer can't handle that large a piece.
the dark brown is actually red (I'm not sure why it shows up as brown on the screen)-- that's part of the print. It pops forward because of the way I've quilted around it, same with the branches. The various weed shapes in the background are mostly things I added in quilting. Still have a ways to go, lots of dark areas need to be pushed back so the branch and lighter parts of the leaf litter pop out some more, and I'm toying with some ideas for hand embellishments to add after the quilting is completed.
Rob