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Found Art - Instructions

Written by Robin Cornwell

Saturday, 03 March 2007

1. Needle felt the wool roving into a hand shape, using a cookie cutter as a pattern, and some swirled wool details. (Variation: Skip the felting and simply cut pleasing shapes from a textured material.)

2. Stitch the felted hand to the doily.

3. Place the doily onto the plaid wool fabric and machine stitch it down.

4. Stitch on beads by hand and embellish around the doily with needle-felted swirls. (You can skip felting by adding detail with embroidery thread or appliquéing thin pieces of fabric.)

5. Cut and lay out the red and white quilt pieces, pinning them right sides together and stitch them by machine.

6. Fold the border out and iron the seams flat.

7. To bring in some more of the plaid element, hand-stitch some small rectangles onto the quilt border.

8. For a wall hanging, stitch on a backing. Place the collage and backing right sides together and stitch around the outer edges, leaving an opening large enough to turn it all right side out. Then fold in the remaining raw edges, pinning them together and slip-stitch the opening closed.

9. Stitch all the layers together with the machine, giving the piece a quilted look. This keeps it from slumping on the rod. Of course, if you like to quilt, you can do more quilting.

10. If making a pillow, leave one end open to insert the pillow form when stitching on the backing.
There!
Your penchant for collecting has become “found art!”

Robin Cornwell
		About the author:
		Robin has been creating for most of her life, from a small child’s handmade greetings for family and friends, to unique hand made journals, fabric collage, stenciled clothing and her continuous attempt to recycle any interesting form that comes her way. Most recently it is that attempt to reuse and recycle that has had the most impact on her work. She is able to find creative use in the chair spindles, wooden boxes and hub caps. Every available space in her studio is overflowing with dyed yarns and wool, colorful fabric, felted wool from recycled clothing and assorted vintage table linens. Mixing and matching materials and embellishments is a constant in all of her creations. Robin has also been a public school teacher at the middle level for over 25 years, obtaining much of her vitality from her students. She has been a common presenter at regional, state and New England area conferences on the topics of art and the arts in education.

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