Fused & machine quilted, hand-beaded. Hand made faces from poly clay. She measures about 11X17, and cradles the child within her belly. My meditation for a healthy delivery of my baby girl, born in Feb 2005. I went into labor with her the day I took my last stitch on it!
Actually, I made a series of 8, each a little different. I like to play around with the composition.
I used Shiva painstiks on the small bit and the strips on top, and used a Castaway pad & rubber stamp to bleach out the hand-dyed background.
for my group.... some of the fabrics are commercial batiks, but 2 of them I altered with heat foils, angelina fibers,& Shiva paintstiks.The dragonfly is painted & stamped angelina fibers. I made up the free-motion quilting pattern all by myself!