I'm making a banner for our church, All Saints Higher Walton. The theme of the banner is healing. After a little research I've decided to base the design on the Tree of Life with a flowing river.
As usual, I'm up for having a go at any creative task - but doesn't mean I'm expert in any of them! I drew out a few ideas and then went shopping with a friend for material. I found a heavy material that looked like it'd hang well and lots of small pieces of green patterned material.
Once'd I'd drawn out the basic idea in chalk on the material, I set to work. Looking at the material I had, I tried out a couple of different ideas until I settled on a kind of crazy patchwork look for some fields.
I cut strips of material out and tacked them together at an angle until I thought it looked good. I then shaped each side panel and backed them onto wadding. I quilted the 'fields' onto the banner material and appliquéd around the edges.
I found a large piece of silky blue material at home which just seemed to 'flow'. So, I pinned the material into the gap for the river, stitching the hemmed edges of the blue material right next to the field panels and loosely gathering the rest using pins. I'm not using any particular method, just pinning and sewing until it looks right.
To hold all the gathers in place I stitched through the gathers with silver thread and to add some sparkle I've stitched some crystal beads into most of the gathering points.
And now for the Tree......
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