This is the second piece in my series. Elizabeth asked a ‘what if’ question of how the wall and vines would look at different times of day. Because of her question, I pulled back the covers on my fabric shelves and started looking.
The background was a really ugly overdyed failure. Or so I thought. It was simply waiting for the right project to shine. It made a perfect twilight background when the wall glows with the red light of the setting sun. The ugly duckling is turning into a swan.
Of course there is a lot of work to do yet but I’m excited about both of these pieces.
While I was in Houston at Festival I purchased a sit down 16 inch mid arm. I’ll be blogging about it in a couple of weeks. I know it is going to make short work out of quilting these pieces. Stay tuned! check out other great working artists at
http://ninamariesayre.blogspot.com/
Janice Paine Dawes, Artist 
Amazing how those 'ugly ducklings' can work so well…it is a fantastic background. Really enjoying watching your progress with Elisabeths class.
Wow, the old sow's ear into a silk purse! The vines and flowers really pop on the 'ugly' background. I can see how you would have put this aside as a failure, but it sure isn't any longer.
It turned out beautiful!!
I really like the background piece — it has a wonderful luminosity. It's amazing what our "dye dogs" can become. A lovely piece.
no such thing as ugly background cloth to a painter, i say. walk away and then someday it is super dooper !
This is so lovely. The "ugly" fabric really shines and shows it's true beauty in this piece!
tooo funny that an ugly fabric really only needs the right playmates to be pretty – go figure :)~