I was admiring the amazing photography of Brooke Peterson
You really must go to Waterdog Photograpy and give it a look.
She is our niece, and she graciously gave me permission to reproduce some of her photographs as applique. This link takes you to a variation of the photo that I chose.
I had a hard time getting the cleaner shrimp's face right and had to ask for extra pictures from different angles to figure it out.
Making it from the stash. Which means my eel will end up chartreuse instead of it's real color.
I had a "perfect" background color, but it wasn't big enough. Settling on this.
Back-basting needle turn is the best technique for these tiny pieces in my opinion. But nearly impossible (or at least highly frustrating) on dark fabric. I decided to do this on some thin cotton. This allowed me to easily position fabrics to "fussy cut" details.
I was careful to stitch only to the other batiks and not the backing. The outer edges are needle turned, but only basted with big, purple stitches. I will press and starch the heck out of this, then remove the basting and stitch it down with silk thread to the dark background.
This cleaner shrimp is roughly 9”. 31 pieces. 13 fabrics. 8 hours
1 comment:
Wow! Your cleaner shrimp is so pretty so far. Backbasting is awesome, isn't it? I sit and do applique using that method every evening while we watch a show. That's a creative approach to working with the dark background fabric. I can just barely see through the red fabric on a bright backlight to trace for my current blocks.
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