I’ve just finished my latest art quilt “Lincolnshire Wolds“.  This one has an entirely painted background, using Inktense on vilene.  I don’t normally use Bondaweb in my art quilts, I usually lay the fabric down and sew it straight onto the background but this time I made an exception.  After giving it some thought it seemed the easiest way to create the foliage on the foreground tree and a good way to make the shadow from that same tree on the field.

The stitching is a combination of straight stitch and free machine embroidery with a little hand stitching along the base of the hedgerow.

Lincolnshire Wolds

The one drawback to using pelmet vilene for textile art is that it is easily creased so it really needs mounting on a canvas or a board when I get around to it.