Ta da!

I finished the piece I was working on - the one I've been showing bits of all last week.  I started out by showing you mystery bits that were felted with roving, scrim and gauzy ribbons...




And they turned out to be rocks.  I decided that the one with scrim wasn't the best choice for this application - the gauzy ribbon gave it the feel of a wet rocks - which they should be.



I added seafoam by twisting and scrunching white ribbon and gauze and then tacking them down by hand.

And then you may remember later in the week I mentioned that there was a "roh-roh". You know what it was? That damn sun! I had the huge yellow blo that totally didn't "go" and was just sitting there looking like a 5-year-old`s take on a sun.  Unfortunately, I had sewn it down really, really well.  So,  my first thought was to paint it lighter.  But, uhmm...



That didn`t work.

(Actually, when I scrolled past it just now, it made me laugh out loud. So feel free to lol yourself!)

So, after I had unpicked stich by delicate stitch ::sigh::

Undone some of the quilting of the sky to access the back of the fabric in order to plump it up ::cranky sigh::

I discovered that the yellow paint I had used had leaked through to the fabric below.  ::ARGH!::

Washing it out helped some, and I was left with a slightly yellow tinted area in the sky, a sort of ghost sun.  It kind of worked, actually. (phew!)