technique ID help
I want to make a fun little quilt for my GD with excavators on it. My vision is to have a plain background with a few little appliquéd shapes indicating a hill or a blimp on the horizon, where the excavators will be "working". I have tried googling every description that pops into my mind, and have searched through the forum photo albums. Years ago there was a member who designed pet appliqués for members (at a fee)- if you were a painter or medium artist it was with a few basic strokes of the brush an image would appear. . but I can't even figure out how to access that thread.
The shape that I am thinking of resembles an apostrophe if that makes any sense? Can anyone help me with my quest?