About Faces...

 

As I work on projects, I sometimes notice a theme emerging. It's not my goal, but it just seems to happen. This time the theme became faces. I began seeing faces everywhere. This shabby chic girl finally found her home in a journal cover I made to encase a composition book. She's a machine stitch-drawing done on music paper, mounted on cardboard, and layered with old lace and trims. I added a fabric tassel and a Boho bead and glued the whole collage to the front of the book. 

This shows the back cover and the pretty floral vinyl fabric I used to make the cover. I'd never sewn with vinyl before and I like the cushy feel it gives to the cover.

Twin faces! I read an article about fiber artist Brianna McCarthy (see her works here) in an old issue of Cloth, Paper Scissors. She makes large masks and faces in both fabric and paper. They looked like so much fun, I had to try my hand at making one. Or even two. Mine are very small renditions and didn't take much time to put together. Just fabric scraps, a dab of glue, some free cutting and a running stitch is all it took. Don't even ask what I'll do with them. I just never know the answer to that, and I've given up trying to find a use for what I make. I'm a process person- I just find my joy in the making!

Look who we ran into while riding bicycles in Yankeetown, FL! It's a famous face- Elvis in all his array. His movie Follow That Dream was filmed in Yankeetown, so there are lots of references to Elvis there.

Our guild had a meet up in a local park and had several freebie tables. Someone had donated a stitcher's estate collection of fabrics and more. I found these two cute panels (almost vintage) for stitch-and-stuff dolls. I don't know why I'm drawn to these, but always enjoy assembling them for some reason. I'm sure I'll find a place to donate them when they are finished. Each girl has a little pet, too. Aren't their faces cute?

Now here's a face you can't forget.... that is if you can figure out which end is the face! We had an unusual number of these Tussock Moth Caterpillars around this year. So many of them that people were commenting on social media and asking what they are. I'm going to guess the end that has red on it is the face. These are pretty, though weird looking, but don't touch! They can produce an itchy rash. It didn't take them long to cocoon and emerge as moths, of which there were also great numbers.

Oh, and I forgot to show you the fabric pocket journal I made as the demo in the Zoom class I taught and shared in my last post. I plan to use it to store various bits and pieces of watercolor exercises I've tried with instructors Joanne Sharpe and Alisa Burke.