Margaret

Margaret, are you grieving?

Named for the little girl who is featured in Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem, my little Margaret is a small art quilt that is mounted on a heavy paper collage "frame".

1. Create a compound image in Photoshop or other photo-editing software and print it out on an inkjet transparency.

2. Make a fabric transfer onto muslin, following these image transfer instructions.

3.  Arrange and stitch various fabrics to a muslin background.  Add a layer of quilt batting and stitch together, adding beads and buttons for embellishment.  Fray or finish the edges of the small quilt.

4. Stitch the quilt to a paper collage, tacking the corners and some other spots to keep it from sagging.  Mount the entire piece onto a heavy piece of mat board that is slightly smaller than the paper collage. 

Copyright 2011 Cyndi Lavin. Not to be reprinted, resold, or redistributed for profit. May be printed out for personal use or distributed electronically provided that entire file, including this notice, remains intact.

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