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I decided I would make my beloved a home-made Valentine's Day card - and started with these fabrics. 

(The one on the far left is a gold btw - it photographed funny!)  I had this idea, which focused on the quilting - a really simple look but stand-out on the background fabric so I started work.
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"Hiraeth"39" x 29"
In the late fall of 2012, there was a call for a challenge group I don't belong to - "self portrait".  I had never done a self portrait and the idea sat in my head like background music that I didn't pay much attention to until I came across the word "hiraeth" on Facebook two weeks before Christmas. 

I'm an avid reader, and work with words for a living, so I was curious enough to look up this unfamiliar word and learned that it was a Welsh word with no real English equivalent.  But the closest equivalent is "homesickness tinged with grief or sadness over the lost". 
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We have a some little friends!  The otter and sprite and made from painted Lutradur, as are all of the rocks. 

The sprite's antennae is cut from a large sequin, the flowers are cut from fused fabric (the blues are hand-dye from Deb Lactiva); and the tree is needle felted as mentioned in Monday's post. 




Here, we have one of the process photos I found - someone hiding in the trees. She was put there while I was testing the effect of the foreground tree, but below, you'll find her as she appears in the final piece...



She peeking!

And you know who else is peeking? That little cat in the tree. :)




And a little fairy door.

I can hardly wait to show you the finished piece on Friday. I really believe it's the best thing I've ever made!   *bounces excitedly*

Kit 120
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Over the weekend, I found a few pictures that were accidentally un-erased and left on my camera card, so I can show you a few process pics about the trees. 

So, up here is a tiny portion of the finished trees section, and as you can see, it's very busy and fully in there. So come check out how the layer process happened after the jump!
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::SIGH::

So you know my fabulous plan - the one wherein I was going to take you through the process of making my piece over the course of two or possibly three weeks? The piece that I have been working on feverishly to meet today's deadline (and which is still not done but will have to do?) You know, THAT plan?


Well, after never having dropped my or any other laptop in all my years of exposure to laptops, I dropped mine TWICE in 24 hours and now it's deader than a door nail. Won't even turn on! I'm using my old one so that's fine (although it took nearly 72 hours to update!!!); but of course, six weeks of process photos are gone.

SO.  New plan is - I'll show you some cropped shots of the finished piece today and through next week - and the finished piece NEXT Friday and I'll talk to you a bit about the process as I go along.

New plan... do you hear that laughing in the background, or is that just me?

;)

Kit 120

Linking with Nina-Marie for "Off The Wall Fridays". :)
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