Crazy Quilted Postcard – sort of


Here’s a postcard that I made like a crazy quilt but done on the machine. The corner pieces with the netting have a base layer of dyed baby wipe covered with threads and gold silk fiber. I then covered that with the blue dyed netting and sewed in a random manner. Then I cut that up and used pieces with other commercial fabrics. It’s more purple than it shows in the photo. Nine more to go!

Back from vacation – two more postcards in the mail!

We got back from vacation (perhaps more photos of that later) and I had two more postcards waiting for me. The first one is by Mary Ann from California. It has an Asian theme with the symbol for lucky. Thanks Mary Ann!

The second card is from Carol from Florida and has a musical theme. You can’t really tell from the photo but the musical note is made from a large black sequin. Thanks Carol!

I have to get back to work on the remaining ten postcards that I need to complete. Then I have a whole list of things to get started and finished. I hope to have more fiber time now that I am taking Fridays off.

Next Set of Postcards

Here’s another rust dyed background with commercial fabrics, FME and machine patterns. Can you tell I like Autumn?

This postcard was done after seeing “Darned Landscapes” on Stitch magazine website. It is stitched and woven with various embroidery threads and specialty yarns. It was a lot of work but I like the way it turned out.

Here’s “Under the Microscope 1” with rust dyed fabric and microscope of commercial felt with stitched outline. I thought it was a bit bulky so for the next one, I did the microscope with free motion embroidery straight on the fabric.

This is “Under the Microscope 2” with rust dyed fabric and FME microscope. I thought the rust looked like an amoeba or paramecium or something you’d see on a slide of pond water.