PEAR

Our Arts in the Cards ATC challenge for September was the color PEAR, which ended up being a real struggle for me. I have been doing traveling and other fun but time consuming things that have me away from making art.  I was also determined to use the batik fabric that had the pear color and a pattern that looked like branches. When I finally decided to couch some cording that had the many colors of pears, embroider flowers and add flower sequins, the month was almost gone and the handwork wasn't moving as fast as I would like.  The nature of handwork is that it takes time;
I love handwork and feel relaxed and comforted by it, BUT not when there's a  deadline .

The image is kind of blurry, but I think you can see the cording, french knots and sequin flowers. Hope to get these mailed out in the next couple of days.