Amanda's Mandala Tree
Day 6- Done!
Now I just have to make it into something!
This was TOTALLY fun- I will definitely be making more Mandala Trees.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
A makeover and a WIP
Don't fall over! I am working on a tote WIP today! But it's a new project so I can't really count it toward my PhD. I do have a good excuse for starting something new, though. Notice the cute new logo? Well, I have been wanting a cat-on-a-sewing-machine logo for a while now and finally conned someone into an art trade.
My shirt-tail cousin/friend, Amanda (who incidentally has a new blog and a new Etsy store), designed this for me. Amanda is an amazing artist and also an elementary art teacher. So she is getting a special teacher tote and I got a supercute logo.
This is a panel that will be worked into her tote bag. I thread painted the tree trunk, raw edge appliqued the circles and now am embellishing by hand embroidering. Eventually there will be leaves- I am thinking paisleys for leaves, but I'm a fly by the seat of my pants kinda gal so we'll see what happens after I put green thread in my needle. Always an adventure here.
some closeups
This was my first attempt at thread painting and I liked it. And it looks ok! I can definitely see myself doing this again.
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