Soft Sculpture vines and Flowers

I had the twisted piece of wood from Japanese honeysuckle that I had taken out of the garden and that began my inspiration for this piece - another from the Tina Marais course. In this piece the vines are linen wrapped cord, the flowers centres are small pieces of repurposed quilted rejects that have been cut and stuffed with the pearl beads looking like seeds. These pouches have then been wrapped with prairie point petals. The textured background is the first piece of gathered on the bias that I did and it is heavier weight fabric. It had a silver on white leaf pattern which disappeared into the folds.

At the top are some flowers made from covered pill cases with a felt wrap, reminiscent of the way arum lily flowers are when they go to seed. I was quite please with the overall result of this that brought together several ideas from natural processes.

In the gallery you can see some of the inspirations: