12 By the Dozen: March 2024

Sunday 31 March 2024

Nearly done! And the next challenge is....

Sorry, folks, but Easter coming so early this year has caught me out. I am so close to finishing my piece.

My challenge to you all is to create a monochrome piece. You can choose whatever colour you fancy but you must keep within the colour. You can add only up to 5% of another colour. The challenge is basically to create an interesting piece using just tints, tones and shades of one colour. It can be realistic, or abstract - any subject, any materials, techniques or textures. Think Picasso's 'blue period' or black and white images or transparencies, etc. Have fun.

Hilary

A COMPASS ROSE by BETH

A COMPASS ROSE is a figure on a map that helps a traveller orient the map to the cardinal directions North, South, East and West and thus you can find your way forward on your journey.

All hand stitched.

(Apologies by Beth. She is still having trouble uploading pics etc. She is hoping her son can sort it out for her when she travels overseas in a few months time. As she will be travelling for 4 months she will be taking a break from the group until she gets back home.)

ROSES IN A TRELLIS

When I first saw what the challenge was it took me ages to figure out how to create a rose and do it in fabric. After many drawings I decided on what to do and came up with what you can see here. It grew rather rapidly as I kept on adding leaves and this whole piece took a really long time to create and finish, but I am very happy with the result. All the roses are done in Kafe Fassett fabrics and the leaves in hand dyed and other fabrics.

La Rose rose de Léa

When I saw the subject for the challenge, my first thought was not the flower, but the french word for pink. I therefore decided to make a pink rose, though now I look at it on the screen, I'm not sure it looks much like a rose. I sorted through my pink fabrics, but found that the commercial fabrics I had in my stash had a horrible greyish tinge and didn't go with my hand dyed fabrics. I found some darker pinks that I had saved from my daughter Léa's childhood clothes: a much loved linen blouse and the lining of a summer skirt. I limited the quilting to just round the petals, having used trapunto to make them stand out. which unfortunately is difficult to see from the front, though it's easy to see it from the back! The working title for this was 'The pink monstrosity', as I hate pink! Léa loves pink and is quite happy to have a quilt reminding her of some of her favourite childhood clothes.