Finally Some New Work- Small Pieces

With the low humidity, and very gentle breeze, I was able to get some great, sharp prints.  The blue and green combo has been my fastest selling color combo. Here are 4 pc in different shadings. I used ferns that I pressed in newspaper, last year, along with fresh flowers, and Jacob's ladder leaves.

The flowers here are Nicotiana- pointy petals, wild daisies, Impatiens- lower left, and some Geranium florets, I pulled from the flower heads- they are the small, pointy flowers in upper left. The geranium is one with jagged edged florets. I think I used salt on most of my pieces- I love the efect- These are really calming to

look at.

The 2 pieces on the left were done with my favorite blue, green, and rose. The heart shaped leaves are from morning glories on my deck. They were a little tricky using more that once, but with care, I did it. More ferns, and jacob's ladder with daisies. I have also been playing with confetti I have been collecting- second bright piece has hearts and doves. The soft lavender pieces have a couple pressed hardy geranium flowers, and Violas, along with more geranium florets. The geraniums were a deep rose color, and some color was left behind in some places.

Another rainbow piece, using above foliages, and a maple leaf. More of the wild daisies, and Nicotiana, Some things mixed that would not normally be found together in nature- a little creative license.

Another set of different colors. Greens with peach rose. Having a perfect drying day, really caused some super sharp prints, with a lot of detail showing.

I upper left, I tried some plastic hearts with a filligree design cut out of them- in person, you can see the details better.  I also used some buttercup, flowers from an Oxalis weed, and some Lobelia flowers- all fairly small, but fun. I don't see any good ones showing in the pics.

After the posts about geletin printing on the Quiltart list, I had to try it, and here is one of my first attempts. Below I have pics of what I did with these. I have 2 different quilts in the works.

I used a pale tealy dyed fabric to print- very different effect that sunprinting. These two were made from hte same painted gel with  grasses and foamy sheet butterflies.

I backed each of these with Wonder Under, and removed the paper. I stacked them on each other, then cut the pieces in mavy lines. These were fused to battuing for the center panels of a couple quilts. You will have to wait a little before I post them- Still in the finishing stages. One will be a late entry for FFFC challenge, and the other will be in a grab bag challenge quilt, I like these better sliced and switched.

Here are some mini wall hangings that sell well at shows for me. They are 5"x12", and can fit in a fram meant for 2 3 1/2 x 5" frames. These and the next few pics, are not completely done, I still need to quilt them, and add haging ribbons.

Another batch in different colors. Also a 5×7" mini in fallish colors.

These are a couple of my simple "matted" sunprints, the prints are bordered in ivory to lok like a matted botanical print. These are quilted and ready to go.

A few smaller pieces- These are all 5×7". The black and knobby yarns were couched down for accent, and bindings. The 2 left pieces have hot fix pearls in flower centers and on seam crossings in the top one.

The largest piece in the softer, warmer tones. Sunprintd were appliqued over a fused crazy patch background, and accented and bound with couched black yarn with a bit of gold metallic in it.

These are each 13×17" appx. They still need quilting and binding. If I can get a hold of some 16×20 gallery framed canvas, I may mount at least 1 on the canvas.

I also spent time today finally planting more baby plants into my gardens and sprayed everything with "Liquid Fence" rabbit and deer repellant- the critters have been worse this year than in past- probably from dry weather.

I got some more flower pics that will come soon. I will also showing the process of the 2 geletin print pieces, after they are finished.