Now that I’ve refined the Seedpod shapes, cut them out in the peltex, and done a trial sewing of the forms I’m ready to go on to the next steps: fabrics. I’ve chosen the fabrics and have been cutting, layering, and making the panels.

When making patterns I save both the positive (pattern) pieces and the negative shapes left behind. I use these negative shapes to select the areas of the fabric to cut out for the final. The negatives are very helpful in using hand-dyes because they isolate the areas of fabric. I can then use the pattern piece to cut out the fabric.

Here are the fabrics, peltex, and fusible web all ready to be made into final panels.

And here are the panels ready for the next step: sewing!

Further layering on the red base (and more white) fabrics. I used a flour resist on the fabrics and then went over them with thickened dye in two browns.

And here’s how the red based one turned out.