Maybe you remember the purple-centric personal treasure map I started building back at the old house. I haven't been able to find it for a few months but early last week we were happily reunited. Since then I've stitched down two lovely violet colored scraps.
Here's a close up featuring one of those scraps. This piece is also a learning cloth for me so it's studded with Firsts. For example the pic above features my first successful rubber stamping on velvet. Maybe it's actually the first time I've stamped on velvet with anything but leaves.
This project started with the above lady's mantle leaf print on linen. I had a very different inner vision then but slowly, as I worked in the purple exploration journal, I began to build this treasure map instead. The groundcloth was sewn and embellishment was underway before I colored the linen with a dye ink stamp pad.
On Friday I added the burnt velvet violet triangles. It felt pleasant and comfortable sitting at the sun-soaked dining room table so I spent some lovely time quilting in the center panel of the map. I am not building this piece in overall layers so much as working in the fabric equivalent of micro-climates. Once they are clarified to me I like to work on a variety of layers within those separate sections.
Here are three of my favorite microclimates:
The next thing I want to alter involves the lovely antique ikat "moon" that is not in a workable proportion to the rest of the piece.
It's going to become the center of a stitched eye but whether that's the sensory organ or the center of energetic and spiritual chaos I have yet to determine ...
oh, an eye, yes....
Posted by: jude | January 30, 2012 at 07:36 PM
am excited to understand and contemplate how to make it happen. so many snippets from you in this one ...
Posted by: Acey | January 30, 2012 at 09:51 PM
This piece is a treasure map for sure. I can see an eye!
Posted by: Nancy | January 31, 2012 at 12:52 AM
Love it. I am always so excited to see any of your textile pieces!
Love.
Posted by: Hélène | January 31, 2012 at 03:28 PM
this is just lovely, so much to explore and take in. i know nothing about rubber stamping on velvet...? wish i could touch this.
Posted by: handstories | February 01, 2012 at 12:41 AM