one more pear

I have always loved pears. I have painted many pictures of pears, made a couple of quilts with pears and now I have covered up one of my plastic pears from the dollar store with sari silk.
Here's a picture of my pears quilt.

 And here's a detail. I used several techniques in this quilt. The life sized pears are stencils from real pears. I just bought several pears, cut them in half and covered them with black paint and stencilled away. Just like what we did in grade school. The larger ones were painted onto glass and the fabric was printed from the glass plate.

and here's a picture of a deer quilt that has pears in it

and I put pears in my Laura Secord quilt. right at the top right hand corner.

and here is a picture of the plastic pear wrapped with sari silk.

I ran out of green when I was almost finished--didn't like the coloured wrap, unwrapped it and started with the bright and then covered it with the green.

Little bits of bright peek through. I like it.

Two down --15 ways to use sari silk to go.

karenwholovespears

A New Challenge

Our Vivian Maier Challenge has come to an end. We all enjoyed it very much. I think I can say that we all have come away from this challenge with a new outlook on our photography. We are open to new interpretations and ideas for  good photo opportunities.


Jo has issued a new challenge for us for this month. We have all been given a quantity of sari silk and challenged to come up with 17 different ways to use it. Here's my first. it's a paperweight--just in case you couldn't figure it out.

I wrapped a stone with silk, and then copper wire with some little twists and turns.
You never know when you might need one--right?
16 more to come.


karenwhoisalwaysmakingsillystuff