Strawbery Pop-Tart

Beautiful, untouched bolts of felt — oozing with potential

Early sketches and mood board. I looked mostly to Christian folk art and Appalachian quilts for inspiration. I remained in the planning phase for a couple weeks, too scared to cut into nay felt.

I started cutting two-inch squares to test out several quilt patterns. These “tests” did make it into the final piece, I had originally planned for all of the quilt making elements to be this intricate size, but that took forever. The squares slowly became larger and larger..

I quickly realized that I wanted brighter colors than I had bought, so I got small sheets of yellow, pink, and orange.

Hanging up the first couple pieces to get an idea of size. This is the moment I realized just how much work I had ahead of me.

I never really made a proper sketch for this piece. I just kept making it up as I went. I did need to whip out a pen to figure out how I wanted the figures to look.

Closeup of hands— I used brightly colored thread and decorating stitches to outline the figures.

Adding in the first figures in hopes to fill up more space.

I finally decided on the final size (7’x4’) I used my empty kitchen floor to map it out with tape. This made it a lot easier to visualize how much more space I had to fill.

I started blocking out more space with solid colors.

Struggling to sew pieces together now that its so large.

I also used more simplistic patterns for the background. I wanted the design to be more simple in these parts to push the foreground forward, creating more depth.

Pinning the final bits together.