I made crazy quilt blocks years ago. I had one which I finished but never "framed". The colours were not my usual pinks, purples and blues but rather browns, rust, oranges. Looking through "stuff" my mother gave me, I came across an Israeli made tea towel (shows you how old that one was) and decided to use it for the frame. ?
Long story short, I had a strip left of about 8 cm wide and 36 cm long. I wanted to make something like this, a ceramic piece Inbal had gifted me from a trip to Arizona.
I tried my hand at air dried clay. Total failure. So not my medium. So I decided to try making something from fabric. Several years ago, POM had a workshop using flexi-firm stabilizer. After the workshop, I noticed that people had used a small piece of it and thrown the rest away. I went garbage diving and pulled out the leftovers, for "future" use.
I cut the pieces into squares and rectangles, and sewed them together into larger pieces. So I have a bunch of 8 cm pieces.
I figure if I make a sandwich with an embellished top, two 8 cm flexi-firm pieced pieces, back it with felt and zig-zag the edges, I should have a comparable small art work.
On top of each tea towel piece, I centred a diamond shaped piece of, what else, fabric from another old project. Then I attached a metal bird and several beads, et voila. Still have to figure out how to hang it but I digress.
Three more and I'll be done.
Update: not sure I'll make them into little hangings. May just make them into fridge magnets.
And I whipped up some more, also from bits and pieces.
Final decision. Fridge magnets.
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