The background for the FFAC Challenge

I thought I would let you see the back of the felt piece I have been making. Details on what I did is in the next post.This is the background for the FFAC quilt. I used a hand dyed piece of velvet, a gorgeous orange/red/rust piece. I painted a piece of Bondaweb (wunder under) with silk paints in red, yellow and blue. I let the paints run into each other. Left it to dry and then ironed it to the velvet.
I then covered the bondaweb/velvet with throwsters waste. It's silk fibres which are very fine. These too are hand dyed in colours that match the velvet. I covered the whole thing with a piece of chiffon. The chiffon scarves you can buy are the best for this. I then stitched over the whole piece at 1/4" intervals and set to it with the heat gun. The colours of the throwsters waste, painted bondaweb and velvet can be seen shining through where the chiffon was burnt away. This is ready for the addition of the leaves and some hand dyed silk rods - well that's what I am thinking at the moment. This piece is coming together all by itself - no planning on my part!

I better go make dinner! Sigh!