Sunday, June 7, 2015

My goodness, I completed this early. Leaves, love leaves but here on the coast of Australia we don't get the beautiful coloured leaves from deciduous trees.
I drew the leaves on white homespun and coloured them using Inktense pencils and then used Jo Sonias textile medium to blend the colours. I then made a quilt sandwich and free motion quilted the leaves adding their veins before carefully cutting out and placing on a piece of handdyed fabric, a bit more quilting and done. Hope your enjoy.

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7 comments:

  1. MargaretKJune 10, 2015 at 4:55 PM

    Carol, I love your use of Inktense pencils - I have a set but haven't used them yet. Good to know about JS textile medium too. Love the leaves on the border. You did a great job.

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  2. UnknownJune 15, 2015 at 8:21 AM

    beautiful colours. It's like they have fallen on the reflection of an Australian sunset

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  3. Karrie PhelpsJune 20, 2015 at 10:59 AM

    I also have a set of Inktense pencils that I've barely played with. Thank you for the inspirational piece along with the " How to". Great colours, it's a happy piece to me.

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  4. Dale KathrynJune 28, 2015 at 7:57 PM

    I also have Inktense pencils and blocks that I have barely played with. I have thought about trying them on fabric, and now I definitely will. Your colours are gorgeous!

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  5. Karrie PhelpsJune 30, 2015 at 9:44 AM

    I used my Inktense pencils for my piece too! Thank you for the nudge.

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  6. UnknownJuly 2, 2015 at 3:13 AM

    Go girls Inktense pencils rock. Glad to inspire a first for me.

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  7. ChrisJuly 3, 2015 at 2:06 PM

    Wonderful colours and shapes. I really like the way you have placed the leaves along the edges -- much softer and more organic looking than straight edges. Like several commenters above, I too have more-or-less virgin intense pencils and am now inspired to dust them off! Thanks!

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