Tiny Details

Here' a little peek at part of that large project I mentioned in the past post. I decided I needed to add stones to the bottom part of the quilt. I love stones...

 I used them in this small quilt, Here He Stayed.

Also in this detail from Construction: Concrete and Stone.

I wanted my stones to have some interesting pattern. I chose this stencil from MaryBeth Shaw, Stencil Girl! It's called damask.

This step also allowed me to tie in some colors from the rest of the quilt -- I needed more of that rusty orange and more blue. Here you can see I've sponged some of the stencil, then I flipped it over and brayered across it to create a second negative print.

See the positive and the negative? I knew I would be cutting up the fabric into much smaller shapes, so I didn't need a full clean image from the whole stencil.

Three little pebbles to start!

Check out the amazing selection of patterns at StencilGirl Products. Really, there are so many possibilities. I think this tiny bit of pattern really adds an interesting bit of detail to my stones.