Prayer Flags: No. 5

I love Prayer Flags and after several years of false starts, I finally finished a set of my own design. Several years ago I took a class on making them from Bridget Benton in Portland. I never finished my set of flags and they ended up in a box carefully labelled PRAYER FLAGS. I recently took another class, this time from Jami, who used a bit different process. So I took the two and morphed them into my own using rough, uneven pieces of fabric adding hand stitching, buttons, and found objects. I considered stamping words onto the fabric, but for this first round I decided to keep it simple.







I took my flags home one evening to do some of the hand stitching while watching some shows that didn't take much concentration or attention.



Back to the studio to scavenge for final touches and embellishments.


Done. Done. Done.








Details.





That was fun. I'm ready to start making another one, maybe using bright colorful scraps of fabric.

Play Time: Prayer Flags

I took another class on Sunday afternoon just for fun. It was taught by my friend Jami and was offered at Stampin' Cat Studio in south Salem. Here's Jami showing off her prayer flags (and that's sweet and funny Carole smiling in the background - take a look at the post she did on her blog about our class by clicking here).


Jami is SO generous with her supplies. She brought oodles of fabric, stamps, and embellishments.



By the time we actually got down to cutting and laying things out, we only had a couple of hours to work, so I didn't even get any where near being ready to begin stitching. I played around with an off white theme, added some punches of black, then played around with pops of color . I envision red stitching on several of the pieces, more bits and pieces of jewel-colored sari ribbon, and and and. But it's all for another day. Here's how far I got in the time I had. Of course, nothing is stitched down so EVERYTHING is subject to change!







It was a fun, relaxing way to spend the afternoon, that's for sure.