Paperwork #1


Ta dah!!!  lol  Okay, maybe I shouldn't toot my own horn, but I LOVE this piece - and I love even more that it's made from fricken paper towel that should have been tossed out! (Or I guess, should never have been tossed out. )

I quilted it to a piece of red wool serge (the stuff the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's uniforms are made out of  - for no good reason except that I had an appropriately sized piece on hand)


and then cut out bits from my Japanese papers and stitched them.  

With addition of some wooden beads, I called it "done" except that (having planned ahead) I had purchased some ready-made canvases to fuse the whole thing to, as I didn't know how well binding a paper towel would go! 


I used my gold leaf marker to "paint" the edges of the canvas, and then I really *was* done.

Yay!

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P.S. joining in the fun at Mama Love Quilts through Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday go check out the fun!

Kit Lang

16 comments:

  1. Kit

    I just love this piece too! It is so simple and yet so,so appealing.

    Isn't paper great! Real mixed media!

    Hilary

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  2. No wonder you love this little beauty - it IS beautiful !! Was the paper towel the result of "cleaning up" after working with colour?

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  3. Who'd have thunk it? It's great!!!

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  4. It's really beautiful Kit! The paper has worked so well and I love the beads - gorgeous!

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  5. Amazing!! ....so what do you do with dryer lint LOL (kidding!!)

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  6. Stunning! It has a very special 'feel' to it. Soothing.

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  7. Very clever and a beautiful creation :)

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  8. Very nice indeed!

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  9. As I said on Flickr ... a wonderful mood ... very peaceful.

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  10. It is so much fun to use things you would normally throw away. I always save my paper towels left over from dyeing. I collaged them onto some upholstery samples, stamped, quilted, painted, them etc.
    http://redorangewolff.blogspot.com/
    You may have to scroll back a few posts.

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  11. Kit, you are a true artist! I'm so amazed what you did with paper towel! It looks great!
    Thanks for linking up to TGIFF!

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  12. thanks for sharing Deborah! :)

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  13. nice!! very clever to fuse it to the canvas too - i usually break my fingers stitching onto canvas :( what sort of fusing thing did you use?

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  14. This is fantastic! Art does start to turn us into packrats, afraid to through things away. No, I'm not a hoarder, I'm an artist!😜

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