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<\/a><\/p>\nI thought I’d\u00a0apply gold leather to some very dark fabric for drama,\u00a0and do lots of machine stitch before quilting.\u00a0 So I began – and below is one of the 4 pieces with leather applied according to one of the sand ripple patterns I’d photographed, including the relevant sketch in the lower right corner:<\/p>\n
But at this stage, I took them down for\u00a0 a few weeks to focus on something more urgent, and\u00a0when I put them up again last week, I’d lost the head of steam I had- but something told me this was not the best approach after all,\u00a0and that I should reconsider the leather,\u00a0also that\u00a0I should reconsider the background, too.\u00a0 Previous\u00a0sample making had caused me to dismiss gold lame (as too brassy) and metallic gold wax,\u00a0sheer gold organza and gold tulle\/mesh all of which were\u00a0not bold enough on dark fabric.<\/p>\n I then thought of some nice cream canvas I have,\u00a0and although\u00a0I’d decided to not even try to get the ‘beach sand colours’,\u00a0 I now\u00a0thought perhaps\u00a0I should try that with gold wax stencilled, then\u00a0embellished\u00a0with metallic machine stitch\u00a0in thread close to\u00a0the same colour, really, although it doesn’t seem so here.\u00a0\u00a0 I realise I’m mentally tossing up between ‘drama’ and organic shapes that really suggest ‘beach’.\u00a0 And I quite like this effect:<\/p>\n My next move will shock some – because <\/em><\/span>I then cut out every one of the applied leather shapes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>They<\/span><\/span> had been bonded on and for good measure had some securing stitches\u00a0 from the back of the dark fabric – there was no ‘removing’ them!\u00a0\u00a0 This piece of fabric with holes in it\u00a0then became the stencil for gold wax rubbed onto the cream, and that’s OK – but is missing something I think:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n