Vamping till ready, or rather keep on playing until I can fix on a full colour scheme in the bedroom box so that I can move on with it.
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- First – the outer edge of that bookcase done
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- Still pushing that chest – may redress it to look more carved than painted
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- Messed with tapestry upholstery fabric – all far too big
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- Deer eating top of chest?
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- More usefully, made mock quilted spread
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- Too big but quite like it
All the tapestry has been put away as all too invasive. I turned instead to making iron-on transfers from photos taken, working on a new carpet, the bedspread and some fabric I might use for upholstery.
The mock quilt is based on Wm Morris’s Daisy wallpaper. I took a section of three sets of plants in three rows, trimming off the bits I didn’t want, made the middle row smaller so it wouldn’t overlap the others, and then moved it to be more central again. In my old photo editing prog I coloured up an A4 page to match the background of the Morris motif and the added a quilt patterned photo I found, fading it out over the top. After a whole load of adjustments to colour and percentage of image layers I tried it out on one of the few remaining iron transfer pages I’ve got and pressed it on to a piece of old cotton pillow case. Downside is that because it’s a transfer it is shiny, but, oversized as it is, I’ll still keep working on it to see if it can be made to look acceptable.
So much gardening to do. When will the wind drop just a little bit?
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