Progress?
Today I didn’t really accomplish much in the way of “finishing” something, other than re-doing Mary’s skirt.
BUT, I did audition a bunch of different fabrics for the stable roof and wall, nearby buildings and I think I’ve got the background “roughed in.” I dithered away the morning catching up on this and that and working out (feeling a tad better…still not well but better).
But, even though there is little concrete done, I feel like I got a lot done in terms of how the final quilt will look. On Monday, I hope to maybe get the background cut and assembled (or mostly assembled). I need to “amend” some fabrics to get what I want to use for the background buildings. I don’t plan on a lot of detail in the buildings…maybe a window or two and the rest to be done with the quilting….you don’t see much detail in the dark! I have –believe it or not– a Halloween fabric with bats on it that I want to use….will use the back side, put some dark opaque textile paint over the bright yellow eyes/red mouth (these are just dots on the back side) then use a wash of something dark-ish over the whole thing to tone it down and make it look like stucco! The light “stones” fabric here is too bright…but want to have something lighter than the fabric behind it to create a sense of depth and dimension….time to play with paint!