Fictional Fantasy from beginnings to end.

It has been a while since I have added to my blog.

This, below, is one reason why.

Looking at these two fabrics, I thought they ought to blend into 

? something?

And, might make a different background for some embroidery.

 At the same time I had been looking at three fabrics I liked and 

wanted to use but didn't want to cut them up.

 So after staring at these printed materials for a while (I am slow) 

I thought, instead of cutting them up I would take some of their

designs and reinterpret them into embroidered images to use someway?

 Actually this was a lot of fun.....designs were interesting 

to recreate into various colors and change sizes at the same time.

So I made a lot of these separate embroideries not knowing 

where they were to go or if they would fit into anything.

 I kept making them, just enjoying the process.

 Thinking I was wasting a lot of time and effort I began 

to lay them out on some designs on paper, 

trying to find some way to connect them.

 I spent time looking at each of them on that fabric 

I wanted to use as a background.

 Thinking of some way to connect these images

 that did not seem to connect I started drawing several ideas on paper.

Finally ended up with a tree or vine or scroll shape. 

 Not wanting to take away from those muted colors  

I chose a grayed green to kind of blend into the background.

 Trying that bird, that sort of stood out, on the background 

I wanted to see how it looked on those leaves.....not good.

 Started laying out these embroideries to make some kind 

of sense on the double background I did many rearrangements.

I eliminated quite a few of the embroideries 

that did not fit either for their color or too much of the same thing.

 Over several weeks of rearranging I finally decided this was a fantasy.

 To me, fantasies seem to have no connection with reality and this surely didn't.

I was not looking for a correct composition. Why Not?

At this point I had not sewn down the scroll or any of the images, 

just kept playing with them but finally decided I had to stop. I was

never going to get to the perfect arrangement, so just started to sew. 

Below is the final in a picture I took. 

I am now ready to have my photographer take some photos of this 

Fictional Fantasy.