Sixth Set of Pieces for Exhibition

We are over half-way now and only a few more days until the exhibition opens - how exciting is that?

This odd-looking set is Tree Bark.
From left I have made Liquid amber bark from felted wool. I had to hand-stitch the 'lines', then needle-felted extra wool for 'texture' and lichen.
The center one is more like the Poplar trees and is made from brown paper, stitched on the machine with cords twisted from wool, knitting yarn and whatever else took my fancy.
The third piece is the Silver Birch tree. This is made from an appropriate batik cotton stitched with velour thread over shrink fabric. After it had all shrunk, I then stitched horizontal lines as you see on the trees.
Weird looking, I know, but fun to try!

Second Pieces for Exhibition

I have a fascination for Liquid amber trees. The bark looks really old and gnarly and the leaves have such a recognisable shape. In autumn the colours are so varied and beautiful - from green with 'rust' spots of burgundy through yellow, red, burgundy and almost purple.
I have done 2 sets of 3 pieces.
This one I did in the late summer. I always have pressed leaves so was able to use them as a 'resist'. Using Pebeo setacolor transparent paint on white cotton, I painted a piece big enough to get a lovely range of leaf colours, arranged the pressed leaves over the paint and set it out in the sun to dry. I have tried doing this in the winter but the sunlight is not strong enough for the resists to work well.
Once dry and ironed to set the paint, each of the leaves was stitched outlining the veins. My quilting lines are the outlines of the leaves.
Here we are:

you will see that in the center piece, one of the leaves is a little different - I used netting as the 'resist', stitched over it and trimmed away the excess.