Sour Grace

 

After working on the design with colored pencil sketches and paper cutouts, it's time for fabric (yay!). The orange will be the 10 stamens in the flower center, the purple will be the background.

Using fusible stabilizer to make pattern pieces, and drawing the lines with a micron pen. Apparently other pen ink can sometimes migrate to the front of the fabric and show up unexpectedly.

Lots of leaves.

Here's how the leaves are looking.

It was really sunny out so I did some weeding of my deck planters and found many Sour Grass plants thriving. They got dug out and washed off and brought up to my workroom.

There really are quite a lot of leaves for each stem so having that many leaves at the bottom of the design feel right to me. I also need to add in something to represent the many buds below the open flower somehow.

Here's how it's looking so far, with a new trick I learned in class- cropping your design with toilet paper. Turns out it really works and is quite easy to do.