My latest Tangled Textiles piece was a bit of a shamozzle, and didn't turn out the way I wanted, but that's what art is about, experimenting.  Have a look at the other participant's work, which is amazing!
I had fun doing it and didn't let myself stress over the things that didn't quite work.  It's a learning experience and this certainly was, for me.

I cut lots of tesselating shapes that suggested water to me, with fusible on the back.

Then I arranged them and fused them for my background

I free motioned some music.  It is the opening bars of George frederic handel's "Water Music".

There is also some handwriting in free motion with variegated thread - very messy.

I also added some foiled text - which was one of the things I was really quite happy with and will do again.

I also added a print on chiffon, which worked well but the contrast was not good, so I outlined some parts.  I didn't like it, so I added a bit of scribbled free motion colour to the main characters.  It was a bit rough, but I just went with it.

You can see my original idea of the water shapes in the background created major problems with contrast.  The shapes are all fused to the background.  Probably, I should have kept it simple and left the picture off, but it was the picture that inspired me in the first place.
"Water Music" does exist,  but the premiere as depicted in the picture is only hearsay, as the painting was painted a hundred years after the supposed day.  But supposedly the music was played for King george 1 on a trip up the Thames River on 17 July 1717.  This story is written in the background with free motion.
Also, my picture is a bit hard to read, and this, I think is due to the shiny gold affecting the other colours in the picture, like glare.
So that is my piece!  As I said, it was quite an experiment.

Happy Creating!

Tesselating

This morning, I was working on making a tesselation for use in a textile piece I have been planning.  I want to make an abstract water effect.   My idea required me to make the shapes interlock.
Here is how I made the template.

The steps are shown in the picture above.

1. I cut a piece of paper.  The corners need to be square.
2. I folded it in half lengthwise with the fold to the bottom
3. I marked my cutting line.  Basically I drew how I wanted the end of my shape to be.  I started the line from the fold and curved upward to the edge.  The curve needs to be symmetrical
4. I cut along my line and this gave me two little bits.  Each had a right angle.
5. I moved the pieces to the other end of the shape and arranged them with the right angles to the centre
6. I taped those pieces on. the actual shape in number five is actually a bodgy one where the curve was not symmetrical and you can see what happens, the shape is not right.  It will tesselate.  But it doen't look right.

On the right of the page you can see some shapes interlocked together.  I used my final template for this.
I think it looks a little bit Like water.
I tried the template out (roughly) on my journal page for today.

I traced around my template and then painted with some watercolour.  It looked quite nice.  In my project, I will be using fabric with fusible on the back, I think it will work out.
We will see....
Happy Creating