More gifts

I made my 3rd re-purposed bag (Laura Kemshall's idea from Design Matters TV)! I put this one in the mail this afternoon. It's a surprise for the recipient! Hope she likes it and can make good use of it. More on her in a later post. I don't want to ruin her surprise!

This weekend I also worked on a wedding gift for my 'great' niece. I know...'great niece'...that's only words you hear or read about when you're doing genealogy! Geezzz Adding that 'great' sure makes me feel old! Anyway, I was quite inspired by my 'great niece' and her finance's wedding invitation. The black and white were quite stunning (as is the bride and groom to be!) Beautiful people in their hearts as well. So I started with some white fabric and sandwiched between batting and backing and free motion quilted a stain glass flower pattern I found. Because I wanted to roll black paint on top of the quilting, I didn't attach to my canvas until I had painted over the quilting (good idea, right!). I had images of black paint all over my white canvas - for once I thought through my process! Yep, that's me patting myself on my back for this one!

Here's the piece quilted and painted (using a brayer and fabric paint).

I then cut the piece down and centered the quilted piece onto the gallery wrap canvas.

I used both gray and black Perle cotton to stitch to the canvas and then I added leaves on the outside and along the side of the canvas. Scary part for sure! Black paint on white canvas! You can just image the horrors that could have happened. But they didn't and all is well. And here's my finished 'wedding' gift.
I'm hoping the kids will like this piece. Their wedding is in Florida and there's no way we could head down this time of year. I'll be lucky to have everything (OK, just my art supplies!) ready and packed to leave on the 27th of Dec.!!