Dragonfly

My second project of 2017 was a dragonfly. I think their wings are amazing and wanted to produce a close up quilt that focused on them. I wanted to capture the way that sometimes they really capture the light and you see lots of different colours.

I always start with a drawing, this is then scanned into the computer and enlarged for my final piece of work. I annotate the drawing with my initial ideas for the different areas, colours and stitching effects etc.

It is important to select fabric that work well together tonally, so I gather the fabric and 
check that they are ok.

With the fabric bonded it is already looking like a dragonfly, but there is a long way to go yet.

I work on small areas at a time, gradually working my way around, starting with the most important areas first, for example the eyes. It was really fiddly stitching the veins, so i had to really take my time.

And here is the end result. I kept the quilting of the background simple.