21 Fabric Postcards

I decided that I needed to get all of my swaps out of the way so I can concentrate on dolls for a while. One of the swaps I am involved in is a postcard one - it's the second round of my Posta L'arte fabric postcard group. I made these over the course of two days, which is pretty good for me as I tend to get distracted really easily.

I used the leftover pieces from my daughter's quilt for most of them and I fused, fused, fused. I took strips of fabrics that looked great together and ironed them next to each other on Wonder-Under double sided fusible web. That gave me good background pieces - then I took a bright tropical piece that had big flowers on it and fused that to some WU. Cut out some flowers and fused them down on top on the background pieces. Did some free motion embroidery over the top of everything and .. voila .. done. On some of the others I took leftover pieces that had been strip pieced and used that for the background - then I just fused some contrasting material on top and free motioned over that. The final pieces that you see on the far right .. well, those are a BIG cheat! About a year ago I started a project from the Cloth,Paper, Scissors magazine - but never finished it. It's a big piece of felt with strips of material fused down (also strips of dictionary definitions - paper) and it has tons of stitching on top. I just cut it up into postcard sized pieces and .. ah ha .. ready made cards. Oh, I'm bad! But, hey, it got the job done and done fast!

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