White-on-White Soft Sculpture

This white on white piece was part of Take Two Arts online course from Tina Marais. Like Tina, I love the play of light on the structured white fabric. The gathered part is another hand gathered on the bias piece that forms the base of the piece. Being created on the bias the fabric naturally wants to fold in on itself and so instead of fighting to make it straight, I have allowed the gathering to fold along its natural line. This piece unlike the vine piece quilting is made from standard white polyester fabric - I think it was some lining fabric left over from an earlier project.

My son in law cut me quite a few 30 cm rounds of waste wood on his c and c machine so I will have plenty of bases to play around with.

The flowers on the bottom right are formed on milk bottle lids, padded and gathered in at the back of the lid. I added some seed beads to simulate flower centres and then used prairie points around the base of the milk bottle tops to complete each flower.

Prairie points are made by taking a square of fabric - 2 inches (50 cm) in this case folding diagonally and then folding diagonally again in the opposite fold direction and stitching these into a long strip on the sewing machine. These are then attached by hand to the base of the milk bottle top pads.

The tassels are long strips of satin fabric twisted and knotted. They are doubled over a large lock ring from a bottle of something that has been wrapped with the same satin fabric. This is then attached at the back before the backing is sewn on