Being blessed with a bunch of indigo fabrics, I was ready to make an art piece with them. I knew I’d like to add an accent color, but which one? After some auditioning, I decided on the pink/orange family.
But, how to best use these wonderful designs? I didn’t really want to cut into them, and several were in squarish proportions. I decided on a gridded composition with three vertical columns. This shows an early arrangement, incomplete.
I added in some dull pink. (Dull, because I didn’t want it to shine more than the indigo fabrics.)
And the almost-finished composition, pinned. I was happy with it. But, maybe the pink had too many dull spots?
I auditioned a brighter pink.
I liked it much better EXCEPT I thought it probably needed to be thinner. I auditioned the idea.
Yep. Much better. But, I had a problem. Most of this was already glued, so I couldn’t easily rearrange things. How could I make the pink stripes thinner? I decided to sew a tuck in the back of each, through the muslin support and all. Can you see the seam below?
That worked. As you can see, I also added some hand embroidery. I’ll have more detail shots of that in the next post.
Ellen Lindner