hungry bunnies

I was afraid that the lovely Textile Artist.org Stitch Challenge

had come to an end last week

.....

But NO :

along came Anne Kelly !

I like the way she works and refers to folk art.

She uses old textiles

and all kinds of fragments, ribbons and lace

and then machine stitches over it all.

The folk art theme was a starting point here.

I made a design

but didn't necessarily want a vase in the center of it ...

That made me think of one of the stamps I made

(some years ago)

the one in the middle of row three,

the bunnies.

Hmmm ... what about bunnies, eating a carrot ???

Then I needed some background

and flowery fabrics

Lots and lots of snippets pinned to the background

Machine stitching and so many pins

isn't a good match ...

So I thought of something I learned a long time ago :

cover it all with a piece of tulle

and then stitch over it all !

And that's what I did.

I took dark pink tulle, but you can take

any colour you like, even black works well

The colour of the tulle kind of "fuses"

all the colours together.

But you can cut away the tulle in some places

to restore the brightness of the original colour.

After the machine stitching was done

I couched some ribbon, sewed some buttons

and made seed stitches

(criss-cross running stitches)

on the background.

"Hungry bunnies" 

 Detail with the tulle, machine and hand stitching

Thanks Anne Kelly,

it was fun !