I choose for the color range: orange/brown and rusted fabric combined with some gold lamé.

A picture of my husband and his friend was outlined on freezerpaper and cut into a stencil. I ironed netting from vegetables under the freezer paper (lesson learned: don’t do this with plastic netting!) , printed it onto the piece and printed some gold lettering around it. Echoed the silhouette with paintsticks and outlined with stitching

Embellished with buttons, handmade tyvek beads and handpainted lace.

Material: handdyed and rusted fabric. Commercial fabric. Gold lamé. Tyvek, Shiva paintsticks and freezerpaper. Metallic and handdyed thread.

Technique: Piecing, hand and machine-quilting, stencilling, beadmaking.

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