Here is my finished book page for March. I --- quilted around the printed sand/earth image with one strand of Needle Necessities overdyed floss. I auditioned a number of threads to "halo" the flames and the side and ended up using a mystery copper metallic thread couched with Kreinik #4 braid in Vatican. The mystery metallic is about the size of a #8 braid but softer. I stitched it to a backing of a commercial "tie-dyed" quilting cotton with rusts, greens, and golds. I used sage-color satin ribbons for the binding loops.It still seemed unfinished so I couched a strand of SJ Designs Confetti (Strawberry Ice) around the outside edge. Confetti is a metallic thread inside a shimmery sheer tube and now the piece is "finished."
I’ve also been adding hand embroidery, mostly using various overdyed flosses, to my landscape challenge piece for Fiber & Stitch. Here it is so far.
I'm planning on making it a free-standing tube (it's wider than shown in this scan). All the wrinkles in it when flat are because I keep rolling it.
