Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Side two of the Prayer / Inspirational Flags


Because I created these flags with a back side to camouflage some of my stitching, I decided to also add more design elements to the reverse side ... think of them hanging on a clothes line in the garden or from the ceiling in your office, where they can be seen from both sides.

The first flag is "dream" and I have added two little patches of the fabric stitched with primitive hand stitches and a few little beads.  The drift of seed stitches comes through from the front of the flag where it was also a design element.

The centre flag is "love" and some of the words from 1Corinthians are written on this flag. I have also used the screen-printed tree with a few little hearts added as leaves on the tree.
The third flag is "smile" and I stencilled this word into the centre of the stitched heart (which is also part of the design on the other side of the flag). I added a few French knots, a little beaded patch and a ribbon of frayed silk fibre that hangs over the primitive stitching that comes through from the front.
This has been a delightful project to work on and it really has been inspirational, soothing, and thought-provoking as I worked through my choice of text and stitch.

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3 comments:

thebutterflyquilter said...

I love all these flags on both sides. It would be hard to choose which way to hang them if I had too! So pretty!

Terry Aske Art Quilts said...

Kathy, these are beautiful! And the backs look as lovely as the fronts.

Pamela said...

These are very special! What a neat project!