DELIA

Hi Girls
This is my "Hidden Treasures".

Size 13" x 18"

II is brighter then this picture and when I get home I will take another and post.

I had no idea what I was going to do and then I though of little gems and sparkles that are found in the sea, on the earth, in the garden. Actually anywhere you look. I had a few mistakes with this piece.

First I ruched part of the yellow background but then I tried out my friend felting machine and put a lot of silk and wool in the one corner and felted strips down the piece. It then looked like an octopus. So under the sea. Still not right. I added some tyvek pieces that were painted with Lumiere paint (blue) and hovered the iron over these pieces to distort them.

On the organza that I used to cover the piece I machines 3 circles and stitched diagonally across each. I cut out the spaces and added a mirrors under.

In the top corner I decided to burn some holes with the heat gun after the organza had been place on the piece. After this I hand stitches around the holes that were formed. These looked quite good with the bright colour showing throw.

I then machine quilted down the pieces leaving space between the lines of quilting so I could cut out some areas.One area is the yellow area of ruching with hand stitching over the top. I also cut the area to show the tyvek and then fringed slightly the organza around this.

Cut out area with the yellow ruching showing through.

Tyvek cut out.


Holes burnt in the corner and then the holes stitched around and some bullion knots added.

I also used some glued gold foils and angelina.

I enjoyed doing this piece and look forward to the next challenge.

Delia