Fougere

Fougere
Originally uploaded by fifiquilter

This is a remnant of the background piece I made for a spring-themed exchange. The yarns, which were couched onto the background using machine embroidery stitches, came from a random bundle of yarns and threads from a local craft shop.

Violets

Violets
Originally uploaded by fifiquilter

This card was a random scrap of blue batik onto which I couched a piece of fancy knitting yarnalong the contour of the batik dyes. Next, I added ribbons using a lazy daisy stitch, with stranded cotton French knots for the flowers. Finally, I added some green beads from the green Hoffman bead soup range (a mixture of large beads like the leaves here and smaller beads too, including thses seed beads).

Pansies

Pansies
Originally uploaded by fifiquilter

This is one of a series of cardsmade from a single background piece. The others (which I forgot to photograph before I sent them) were similar but not identical. I like to cut images from other fabrics and attach them using embroidery or beads.