I just came across a wonderful little butterfly, from a treasure box from Judy T., a fine piece of beading on net, which really has to go into the night scene, since it might be a moth.
Closer in so you can see the new butterfly/moth better
And here's how it sits in the whole piece. Along with the luna moth. Not complete, more will happen, but not a lot, I think.
Then the dragonfly decided to move into the lizard's habitat, so the original work is losing its inhabitants and will need more! disregard the wires on the dragonfly -- they'll slip through the fabric and be secured at the back once we get there. And she will probably be angled differently at that point.
Tomorrow I'm off to the goldwork adventure, pix later, so I'm leaving this project in nice shape to pick up and continue when I get back, no doubt with ten other projects in process.
People have been asking to see the critters created to date, and what I'm up to. So here's the current state of play. The parts of the butterflies are still separate, until they are stitched onto the final surface, but I've tried to post them in their little bags so as to show you the general idea. The molded paper pieces will be stitched in somewhere, don't know where quite yet.
I've done most of the dragonfly body, but still need to bead the head and stitch some interesting features into the tail. Meanwhile, thanks to Florence, I have a piece of organza to work the dragonfly wings. And I've drawn them, and I'm stitching on the wiring for the shapes.
The pic shows the body on one hoop, the wings on another, and the working drawing cut out because I had to use it as a template for the felt padding of the body.
I drew in the wings on the body hoop, too, so as to remind myself of the placement. But when I came to draw them individually on the organza on the other hoop, you see that there are four parts to them, all to be wired and able to pose off the surface of the work. I love the stitching of the wiring. I'm using a purple silk thread for this.
Since I have two possible backgrounds, one a white silk with dyed colors, one a black sateen with a copper monotype on it, this might be shaping up to be a diptych, one daytime scene, one night time scene. We'll see.
Here's the latest in the wilderness group: a dragonfly. The body is felt, overlaid with sparkly ribbon like the lizard (and the luna moth) so he will fit in to the scheme. The head and thorax will be stitched and probably beaded. There will be more stitching on the body, too. The wings will be a separate item, wired and as transparent as I can make them, still need to figure out what to use there. So this is where we are.
My original drawing is seen in there. I made it in fine point pen, then went over it with a marker so as to see it through the base fabric to trace it. Then I cut out the shape so as use it as a pattern to make the felt body correctly, and the ribbon overlay. There will be goldwork, and beading, too before we're through.
