Fabric Flowers and Vase (Mounted for Open Studios)

Fabric Flowers and Vase (Mounted for Open Studios), a photo by randubnick on Flickr.

This is my still life of a vase and flowers made of appliquéd fabric. (It's like a collage, but the pieces of fabric are ironed on to the cloth baking.) I started this project back in 2005 in a fabric arts class, but put it aside unfinished, and picked it up again this January and finished it (progress posted here in January). I decided to display it for open studios, so I bought a cork bulletin board, used blue painter's tape for edging, and mounted it with thumb tacks. It can be hung on the wall, but for this weekend's event, I just put it on an easel. Eventually I plan to get this piece behind UV glass, maybe in a shadowbox frame, but meanwhile I am happy with the way this looks.