07.18.08
Sue’s Starfish
Sue's starfish
To make my postcard I made a photo transfer of the image and put it on a lilac batik background. Next I cut it into 4 horizontally , rearranged the pieces and sewed them back together. I then cut the piece in 4 vertically and sewed them back together. I repeated this process once more. When I was finished I had bits of red starfish scattered over the design area. Where ever there was a bit of starfish I created a whole starfish.I knew that starfish regenerate them selves if they lose a limb and wanted to use this in my design.
The starfish were silk roving with whipped chain stitch and circle buttonhole stitch to give them some detail. The shells were stitched with loose french knots and whipped spider webs in a variety of shiny threads some stitching being done over shell like buttons.To get the background to be waterlike, I used holographic shimmer thread in a stipple stitch.
