Portrait Class with Luke Haynes

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Oops, I knew I had neglected my blog but didn't realise that it was so long since I last posted (July 2020).  Anyways 2020 and 2021 have not been normal years for anyone, so I'm going to try and post a bit more regularly.

Thanks to Covid, there has been no sewing meet-ups or workshops apart from online ones. I saw that Luke Haynes was running an online Portrait class last month and signed up.

A few days before the workshop, all the participants were emailed the pattern (which was a portrait of Dolly Parton!)

I really enjoyed this workshop, with lots of information provided. Luke Haynes uses glue to affix his fabric pieces but I used the old reliable bondaweb!

The technique itself is fairly labour intensive, each section has to be cut out of the paper pattern and then cut out of the fabric - so not a fast process but the results are great. You had to use four fabrics for this portrait - dark going to light. I used a dark green solid and the rest of the fabrics were 1980 flower prints which I had in my stash and didn't' really like, but they worked well for this technique. 
working on the eye section - the last parts to be done.

 still need to stitch and quilt the quilt top, but it looks fairly good and Dolly Parton is recognisable. 



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