When I left you on Wednesday, I was thinking that I had made a BIG mistake with those acrylic paint additions. The paint was too heavy, it obscured what I had done previously (which was sort of dreamy and pretty) and I wasn't sure I'd be able to quilt leaves on top of it in any meaningful way.
The paint was already dry, but I decided to try taking it up anyway with some rubbing alcohol on one of my boring green parfait dyed failures, and mes voila! A lovely mop up cloth that I really, really like! But that's not all, I actually finished the experiment...
And so then I worked on my quilting to see if I could make leaves in a way that doesn't make my trees look like lollipops.
First I tried to do what I think of as a standard kind of "leaf" shape. It wasn't bad, all in all I think it'll be a fairly successful foreground if I were going to do a forest type thing.
And then I tried a more abstract sort of leaf - not really a leaf, but more the suggestion of a leaf.
I liked that much better, and I think it'll look good I think as a kind of background leaf - if I wanted another tree in the foreground to stand out more, for instance, this would be a good choice.
And then I tried this kind of pine-needly kind of evergreen sort of thing - which really - I mean this isn't a tree that exists anywhere in nature (lol), but this needle shape will be great for a future evergreen - and was really the most successful of the three, in my opinion.
So, this little journeyman piece had two purposes - to try and conquer the lollipop tree and to figure out what leaves work best. I like all of the leaves for their various purposes, and the lollipop effect was somewhat diminished, so all in all, a good experiment. More to come in future, never fear! I still have THIS one to quilt!
Don't forget about the giveaway - you can still enter until 11:00 p.m. tonight - I'll announce the winner tomorrow.
'Til then,
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