Saturday, June 20, 2009

Three Border Fabric Options And Critters

So these are three potential fabric borders. The first one looks kind of Aboriginal--with stripes and dots between the lines.


This one has dark brown doodle type circles with colored dots at the center. And this one is little, slightly smudgy squares with touches of other colors.

I'm trying to put little elements around each critter that suggests its environment. So this is seaweed and air bubbles for the platypus. I learned an important lesson about glue sticks today. If you use too much on your fabric, when you sew it, it frays the thread as it comes through the needle and will break it after awhile. I have to go easier on the gluestick. I knew it was too good to be true! Actually, this only seems to be a problem with my new re-positionable glue stick I got for 50 cents from Staples the other day. My old half dried up ones didn't cause a problem.


Okay, I admit the sewing sucks on these water ripples, so I may have to rip it out, but it is the idea I was looking for.

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