Inking on the rivah

Ille added the building and cat to her people...

Today the Wednesday group inked pictures to make quilts with ...we had a blast...worked hard long...lots of good food....hot tea chocolate ganache cake...YUMMMMM....now we bees tired:>

Heres what we did ...Black ink sketches got turned into colorful drawings with tsuniko inks.....some people combined the black lined sketches...adding chickens, houses, windows, cats...you name it it got combined.

What we found interesting is that we all used the same markers yet each was so different than the other...the individual fingerprint of the creator.Added a window, walls, cats and peaches..Siobhan did a great job!!

Church ladies gossiping...I didnt like my sky so i cut it out and added a piece of hand dyed sky...i added the background to the ladies in the foreground.

Riding high on the old family grey ford tractor...isnt this GREAT? I could hear the stress exuding out of Pam when she got started but this turned out SOOO great!!! Sheets got turned into bright quilts...she added the chicken and the cat....great job SUE!!!

the ladies on the powch

so the quilting is almost done...now for the edge...its going to be pieced...well it is if it cooperates...so far it is NOT cooperating at all...

I uploaded both the original and how it looks now so you could see that the thread painting does change the color of the original picture...

so now what to do...

the quandry...how to thread paint this..i know what to do the wonky house, the chairs etc...but the ladies...do i thread paint their faces, legs and arms or do i leave them plain...just cant decide...what do you think...

It will get an wonky pieced edge on it...BUT I just cant decide what to do with the ladies....opinions please!