What I am working on

I decided to work on a fabric collage with some of the fabric I bought at B-Textile and stuff I have in my stash.

I started with the background stripes in colours I felt went with the flowers in the fabric I previously spoke about.

I wasn't as diligent as I used to be and will try to remedy that in the future.

I went to B-Textile a second time hoping I'd find my wedding dress fabric (the white textured stuff) but alas they didn't have it.  So I decided to use pieces of what I have left - it was purchased in the late 60s, and a remnant at that (I was smaller and the dress was a mini).

So my initial layout was this:

 But I didn't like the wedding dress bits.

And I didn't like the white stripes.

And I didn't like the white background in the flower pieces. 

This is where I am now:

 

I put some ribbon over the white stripes to give it some oomph.

I outlined the flower fabric with a dark green dupionni silk. 

I made two flowers from the wedding fabric, one I outlined in the darker pink-red fabric because otherwise it didn't stand out against the peach fabric.  And in the middle, I put a fabric bead, made from the dress my mother wore to my brother's wedding. 

On Friday, I went with Honey and her friend to the Etobicoke Quilters Guild show and I saw a quilt which was crayons on white fabric.  When I got home, I crayoned over the flower fabric's white background and now I am happy with that.

Now to embellish.