with the quiet light of the moon

 Sometimes I drive my son to school in the morning.  It's dark.  Really, really dark-

 except for the quiet light of moon. 

When full, it's our favorite; silvery and grayish.

Quilted black silk, painted fabric with raw edge applique.

8" x  8"

The Understory

After thinking about several ideas for our element challenge, I decided on the many elements of the rain forest.  Specifically the understory.

The applique elements are all raw edged.  The background is pieced and then cut apart and pieced again to add dimension.  

Butterfly Garden

A mystical and magical place.

9"x 9"

The background was randomly strip pieced, then cut, with additional strips sewn in to represent stems.

A piece of poly batt was used between the layers for quilting.

 Bobbin stitching with snips of dyed silk ribbon and paint made up the flowers.

 And, the butterfly was stitched with one layer of white fabric, painted with inks then cut out.  The body is a stuffed piece of silk.  Everything was stitched to the quilted background and the legs were added last by zig zagging over a thin nylon cording.  

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