You may remember the small fabric pieces I showed you not long ago (look here). I have a few more to show you – these were made in September/October 2021. I used the technique I followed for much of the time I made fabric art for sale back inthe 1990’s and early 2000’s. For a full explanation, look here at this post I wrote about a large hanging I created not too long ago.
Short version: I adhere pieces of fabric to a canvas fabric background using stitching, either regular stitching with the machine or free-motion machine stitching. That’s it!
The first one is 6″ x 6″, more or less, and the second one is smaller, I think because I must have not liked the side of it and cut it off. Maybe that’s the reason, and maybe not. I admit to not being able to remember.
Did I mention that I bought a new sewing machine? Yes, I did do this, back in September. My old machine, a veteran of 24 years of very hard use, finally showed signs of giving up the ghost. Rather than repair it, I opted to get a new one.
I reflected on the idea that if this new machine lasted 24 years, I would be 87 years old. And that when I got my previous machine I was 39 years old. Well. This is something to think about, right?
Claudia McGill and Her Art World 
I like them! Awesome use of scraps and great faces!
Thank you. I like working in this size, and with such small pieces of fabric.
These are fabulous. There is so much exuberance in them.
Thank you. I am feeling happy to be revisiting fabric art and it seems kind of new again to me.
Enjoy your new machine and your new year.
May you live and stitch until you are 87 !!
(If I make it to 83 I am going to smoke a cigarette, the last one having been smoked 31 years previously, which is the length of time that I was a smoker.)
Thank you. You know, some friends and I were talking one day about what things we had given up and that we would take back up if we were diagnosed with a terminal illness and there wasn’t the staying healthy issue and going back to smoking was the most popular (I never smoked so I said I would eat chocolate cake every single meal).
I’m really digging these, you always inspire!