Thursday, September 6, 2012

A rainbow in my sight...

Good morning!

A peaceful morning for a change! The baby is playing happily and the older one is away at school. Bliss!

Moving away from paper craft today, I want to show you a project I made with some fabric, felt and paint sometime back. I decided to hang it on the door of our room and put it away while the room was getting a make-over.

I was looking to make something cheerful and colourful, for the new baby. The concept sort of grew from there to this...



I started with a scrap of thick fabric and a sponge which I cut into semi-circles to make the rainbow. I machine stitched the divisions for the colours. Then I added acrylic colours in the suitable shades, finishing up with a light blue for the sky.


The lines of glitter added a bit of sparkle as well as masked the stitching lines.


The sun and the cloud were both made of felt and embroidered with floss. I stuffed them lightly with some polyfil for added dimension. I stuck the rainbow on a stiff piece of mount board with fabric glue after adding a loop of cord for hanging. 

The final touch was gluing the sun and cloud on either end of the rainbow with fabric glue.


And this is how the rainbow looks hanging on the wall. I took the photo against the bookshelf as the light near our room door is not too good.

Hope you liked this little hanging; it always brings a smile on our face each time we see it. Like catching sight of a rainbow in the sky...

11 comments:

  1. Oh wow what a beauty-- I wish I could stitch half as good as you...this is superb work. So cheerful. I sometimes show bloggers work to my kiddo but lemme confess I will not be showing my kiddo this one as there is no way I will be able to make this for her. Hats off to you!!

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    1. Thanx Sonia! I regularly visit your lovely blog. So appreciation from u is really encouraging. Thanx again!

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  2. I couldn't chide myself enough for having missed your blog...for reasons best known to no one!!! I am such a loser...but I am a follower.
    With my ever-slow internet it took me twenty minutes to load this rainbow but talk about determination..i had to see it. If you showcase it ...may be you could give fisher price a run for money...its bright, playful, cheerful and i am jealous of not being able to possess it. Its cheerful and even though i am a researcher i confess to needing it more than anything. Hence I implore you to come up with a tutorial..if i will learn stitching..it would be to make my own rainbow. Its perfection and its the best way to start a day..

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    1. Hey sweetheart, I am very new to blogging! So your words are really, really encouraging! As far as the rainbow goes, no need to learn stitching! The original idea was from a polymer clay one. So now I am thinking of making one with m-seal. Thanx for giving me a new idea!

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  3. Amazing.. this is too good.. wish I too cud make it for my SUN... @some..

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  4. Oh wow....SO lovely blog and wonderful works here..Very happy to follow ur space and thanks much for ur nice words on my blog!

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  5. This is soo soosoo cute and marvelous.
    Wonderful creation

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    1. Thanx sweetheart! Taking my time looking thru ur store!

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  6. Thanx Pooja. Tuzha blog baghitla. Koop chhan aahye...

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