Challenging Fabric Art

Have you been checking the Glossy Project?  This month she is doing a cover from Vogue.  She posted the cover on the website,  so I printed it out and I am giving it a try too.  Her process is interesting, I think, and very creative.  So, here is step one... the basic embroidery part front and back sides.

The next step is to add a bit of gesso and then embellish as you like.  I have to figure that out yet.  Some bright lovely colors... beads... more hand stitiching... maybe some machine stitiching... what?

And another challenge... notan.  Some one mentioned this on one of the groups I visit, I had not even heard of the term since my college days.  I still have to do some research on it as I am not sure what all it encompasses.  But on the group you were to do a quilt block either in paper or fabric, I think... I guess I did not pay enough attention to the whole convo... and maybe they are swapping, I am not sure.  But, I just was interested in the "reflective" or "mirror" image concept and decided to give it a try.

What I did:  I found a piece of black and a piece of white fabric... cut a square... not too carefully either, lol.  I laid the pieces together and cut them in half.  I sewed one piece of black to one side of white to make a new square.  The other sides I put face to face then cut out the circle, and then the butterfly out of the circle.  Actually that is just half of each.  Then placed the cutouts on the opposite colors and sewed around the edges.  Then I added a bit of stitching for the antennea and legs.  I probably will use this on a journal cover some day, if and when I make a new one.  I have way too many journals and I am trying not to make more, but I have all these fabulous fabric things I have made that would look so cool as journal covers.  So, this is going onto the pile of "someday."