Paper Quilt

I went to bed thinking about a paper Kawandi quilt.....so that's what I played with today. 

I used a piece of very lightweight fusible interfacing as the base...and in typical Kawandi style I worked from the outside in tacking the papers down with my tiny iron as I went. I didn't fuse them down totally until the end.....I wanted the option to tuck and overlap as needed.  

I used mostly gelli prints and a few other painted papers.

Here's what it looked like before stitching....the fusible interfacing worked perfectly holding everything in place.  It's nice when an idea works....and I may try fabric one the same way.

Stitching in progress....wishing at this point I would have done a grid. I tried not to be perfect...I wanted the lines a little wonky.  And in the end I don't think they were quite wonky enough.

I love stitching on paper...it's so well behaved....

but the fusible stabilizer base really helped.   

This may be one of my favorite bird collage card so far! I think the pop of red is just right.  Connie's Calendar bird meets Kawandi paper quilt....

I think she would approve.