Quilting Mixed Media

  Central image now quilted... My whole quilting plan was simple...a) outline stitch the stenciled areas and leave them alone ... b) Using matching threads in free motion... straight stitch outer edges of tissue elements to make sure they stay adhered , and c) enhance prominence of gold circles by stitching each circle with bright yellow/gold thread.  Not too hard a quilting plan.

The background fill could be anything unobtrusive... even a smaller meander would work great. Shown here is a simplified  rather relaxed version of the S curve fill sometimes known as McTavish..   the original thanks to the talented Karen McTavish who credited  Alfonso Mucha with some of her quilting inspiration!

All adhered elements (w/ one exception)  seen on this quilt top are either napkin: flower, butterflies) , bathroom towel tissue ( bird) , kleenex tissue(yellow circle elements), or handmade paper ( rust orange and gold vertical paper strips,  and paper with holes behind dark butterfly) ). The  exception being the puffed shiva paint stick stenciled swirls outline stitched  but left open to puff. Paper elements were  first adhered to background fabric using  matte medium as "glue", then top coated with same , then  air dried becoming softly "plastic", allowing for quilting atop elements.

 Note: Generally... edges  of  paper elements were stitched with matching or near matching 40 wt. thread.  I used needle size. SHARP 70 / 10  to achieve smaller needle holes . Click on photo to view enlarged image.