What I got done today

The other card feather

And I played with a little mock appliqué with the same technique.

The more I do, the more potential I see.

Sally Bramald graffiti artist?!?

Our bedroom is next in line for redecoration and I wondered what it would look like if I did some feathers behind the bed.
Sorry the bed is unmade and the feathers are not completed, but I just wanted to see what the effect would be. I used a Sharpie pen. The new colours of the bedroom will be raspberry and ivory white so I will do it in red Sharpie if I decide to run with it.
The paint samples have been there absolutely ages.
It will be a mammoth task decorating this room. Firstly the wall paper shall have to been stripped off and that will be a real pain. It is a Laura Ashley paper and I hadn't realised until the time came to remove it that it has a layer of vinyl and worse than that it has a layer of paint on top. And the bedroom is large (about 20 foot square). A journey of a 1,000 miles starts with one wall at a time?

Sometimes it doesn't work

Same technique as the one the other day but on cotton sateen. Obviously this is fabric type sensitive. It just doesn't have the same intensity of colour. Better to learn this on a small sample than on a whole quilt.

As a prototype, I'm very pleased with this

How I draw feathers (and something else for fun)

For fun, the magnets on the side of my fridge, they're not on full display as normally the kitchen door is open against the side of the fridge. The magnetic calender with one of Ferret's nudes arrived in today's post.
I start by outlining the area I must not go outside. In this case a 6" square. Then I draw the spine, followed by a rough guideline for where I want the lobes of the feathers to end.

Then I start by drawing the first lobe at the bottom on the right hand side (this one is the most difficult to make elegant but don't worry you can redraw it later if it really ends up badly) Each lobe starts from the spine. If I were left handed, I'd start on the other side of the spine.
When I get to the end, I do a final lobe but this time I start this final one from near the top of the preceding one. Instead of taking it back to the spine, I take it nearly to the spine then continue down nearly parallel to the first line. This gives you a nice double spine. Then starting at the bottom again, I draw the first lobe. I draw the next and all the following ones, not from the spine out but from near the tip of the lobe before it.
You can see I've gone outside my rough outline near the tip of the feather. This is OK, it's only a guide and when you reach somewhere where the rough line looks wrong, then go with what 'feels' right.