The Mrs.

Fabric Puzzle Painting

While I was expecting our youngest son it was impossible for me to sit behind my sewing machine, because of some problems with my hips. But still I wanted to make something. Do you know that feeling?

I decided to create something for the wall in my baby's room. But the problem is that drawing and painting are things I find to be very, very difficult. It's something about that flat surface that makes me all clumsy. I need to feel something, to be able to walk around it and to touch it to know the right proportions of a piece. I'll keep practicing though, so who knows..

Anyway, I decided to play a little with the scraps of fabric I had lying around. And made a little elephant, that is now hanging in olivier's room.

What I used:

• scraps of fabric
• glue for textile
• scissors
• pattern paper
• a pencil
• a painters canvas

First I drew a simple elephant shape on some pattern paper. This one I drew myself, but ofcourse you could use all kinds of simple pictures, for example from a children's colouring book.

Then I traced the elephant on another sheet of pattern paper, so I had two of them. Both elephants I divided into pieces with my pencil.

After that I took one of the elephants and cut out all the pieces. The other elephant I didn't touch, because it will be used as an example, when piecing the fabric elephant together.

It was then a matter of choosing fabrics and pinning the little pieces of the elephant onto the different fabrics and then cutting them out. Using the paper elephant as an example, to make sure every piece was in the right place, I glued the fabric parts onto the canvas, creating the elephant shape again. Just like making a puzzle.

This time I added some green flowery fabric to suggest some grass around the elephant (I didn't use a pattern for those, just cut them loosely out of the fabric), but looking at it now I think some background could be nice too, either out of fabric or drawn with pastels or something. The possibilities are endless! 

Here I already have some orders for new puzzle-fabric-paintings: Lucas wants a dinosaur for his room and Sarah is begging for a castle in the clouds for hers. So I guess I better get busy!

Have fun!

Saturday, June 06, 2009

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