It's postcard time again! Sue's swap group decided on a fall theme of Animal Alliteration - a 3 word phrase including an animal. Some examples:
"Are artichokes
artful? Can cats count? Elephants eat enormously! Squirrels scamper speedily."
As evident from the post title, Sue's alliteration is "magnificent monarchs migrate". Using a thermofax screen of a monarch butterfly, she printed 2 sizes of butterflies with black paint on orange hand dyed fabric. These would be used to made fusible appliques.
In order to make them a bit more realistic, Sue used a paint pen to add white dots around the perimeter of the wings. Below you can see the difference with and without the dots.
Here's one close up.
Next, MistyFuse fusible web was applied to the back of the fabric. Then they were cut out.
After fusing a mottled blue hand dyed fabric to the postcard base, the butterflies were arranged on each and fused in place.
Stitching around each butterfly secured them, and after fusing on the back of the card, satin stitching finished off the edges.
Then they were ready to migrate to the mailboxes of their recipients!
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