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Okay a reveal on the surface design piece….

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Here is a quick little follow up to this post Misadventures in Fabric Surface Design.

In that post I shared the “hot mess” that my first piece looked like after I completed by surface design activities:

But I didn’t show what it looked like after the whole process was done.

My piece went through a series of soakings after I made it, then was laundered and dried.

And here is how it came out….

(drum roll)

Yes, even worse. But a new kind of awful. I like variety in my awful – ha!

Thanks in advance for your kind words like you shared on the first post about my misadventures in surface design, however I will not believe them on this reveal – ha!

But I am keeping the piece and will cut it up and use it in something…someday…I think…

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39 thoughts on “Okay a reveal on the surface design piece….”

  4. Oh my gosh! It’s a wonderful throw pillow piece for one of your outdoor sitting areas! But what a process. Thank goodness for all those fabulous fabric and quilting shops and their stacks and bolts of beautiful designs prints. As always though, I so appreciate your curious and adventurous spirit and willingness to try new and creative things. You get as much joy from your perceived fails as your many successes and we all enjoy your blogs about those!☺️

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  16. I really like the dried piece. I suggest you put it away and come back to it in a week or two and discover it anew … Thanks for sharing.

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  20. You know how I’ve been on a new collage journey with other peoples supplies – well often I don’t particularly like the “outcome” and then I cut it up and make it into something else

    You too can do that – but first turn it over, so you are not looking at from the front – cut out a shape that you like, maybe a leaf, a square, triangle – from wherever it feels right, even the middle of the piece

    that’s your starting point – put it on a quilt pattern square – if that helps. Or cut up a block in just one colour, – maybe black or cream – and applique that cut piece down – make some words or outline it with some hand or machine stitching

    You can do this!

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