More Pics of Dreaming of Dragonflies

Raining here today - the light is quite dull so am hoping these photos are not too washed out!

Dreaming of Dragonflies

Finished at last!!!
The materials that I have used in this collage are those that I love the most and I have always wanted to incorporate them somehow altogether with lots of different techniques in the hope of trying to create a truely harmonious piece - like one of those beautiful summer dreams that starts well and ends well.

Materials used include velvets, satins, dyed silks, ribbons, mohair, vintage Indian braids, recycled Rajasthan vintage textiles
wool yarn and cotton embroidery threads .

Techniques include, felting on my embellisher, crazy patchwork, hand and machine embroidery, collage and quilting both by hand and machine also some applique.

It really was a challenge especially when some bits of my precious braid started to frey BUT just loved every minute of creating it.

Just to keep you up todate with my new work on my collage I have posted this picture.
I am now working on the binding and borders and then a little more quilting so hopefully
soon it will be completed!
Hope you all had a relaxing weekend!

New Work - almost there