Dandelion Wine
Yellow cotton fabric, yarns, glass and seed beads, brads, artificial flowers, raffia, wire, embroidery floss, metallic thread, ribbon, buttons
I took the color yellow and started exploring every kind of embellishment idea I could discover. First I raided my stash at home and then hit every department at JoAnn's. I began by needle felting six different yarns onto a base fabric. I then used embroidery floss to stitch X's and french knots. I next added the beads, brads, buttons and fake flowers. I then sewed on puffs of several other yarns, bits of ribbon and yellow raffia. I then quilted this onto a backing fabric with gold embroidery floss and bound the edges with several yarns. The last touch was the wire swirls and springs. Who said less is more!
15 comments:
Nikki: You are the embellishment queen. I love how you have that darker bit of gold yellow runnign diagonally through the center.
Nikki, this is pure eye candy. Very creative.
Nikki, this is so wonderful! I wish I could see it in person -- but clicking to get a close up provides GREAT detail. I love how you gathered up all these great elements and used them with such riotous abandon!
Absolutely awesome Nikki. I agree with Karen...eye candy it is. What fun!
Yowza! I love those little dotted ribbon knots. Amazing. I can totally imagine a field overrun with dandelions looking just like this.
These are beautiful. Ohmygosh! What eye candy!
It's wonderful! I would love to be able to touch it!
Delectably lush!
And another needlefelter - got to get me one of those!
More is definitely more here!! This positively effervesces!
This makes me just want to ROLL IN IT! Absolutely sumptuous and just plain scrummy.
I don't know if I would roll in it. The raffia and wire are a little pokey. I did have problems with my cat lying on it though.
Such a glorious profusion and celebration of YELLOW!
This is absolutely gorgeous!
What a wonderful piece! It was fun to explore "up close and personal". It looks like you had a great time creating it...which makes it even more fun for the viewers.
this piece is wonderful!
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