This is a new technique for me, fabric collage/scrapplique
It was inspired by @sheepBlue 's hangings at Ticker Tape Quilts - One scrap at a time and by an apron* I saw in my travels this summer, and by the huge bag of scrap fabric taking up so much space in my studio.
I did the background, moon, figure, and wings as separate pieces held together with fusible web, then stitched. Then I assembled the pieces with more fusible web and stitching. AND ADDED SOME HAND EMBROIDERY.
I learned about the importance of contrast…some parts disappear more than intended, while others are more obvious than expected.
*I really liked that apron, but it was $50, and I could make it myself, and it was made of scraps… Now I really have to make myself an apron.
I’m always drooling over other people’s fabric, scraps or not.
But I’ve only done one other scrap craft; a couple of years ago, I just randomly assembled scraps into a piece, and I hated it. The colors were too childish, clashy–pink! lime! orange! blue!
Before starting this one, I sorted my scraps into 12 different piles. The sky includes scraps from 4 piles, the moon from 3, the body from 2 piles, and the wings were made from bits snipped from 4 different fat quarters, not technically scraps!