Thread Painting

Yesterday, I felt like working on a piece using free motion stitching. 

I had an old piece of fabric I got from an antique store, I think it might have been a curtain. 

I wanted to add some more texture, so I used lace and another blue fiber.

Do you recognize the blue fiber I layered over the top of the whole piece and used for the little flowers? 

The blue fiber is from those goofy looking surgery hats.

I took this photo of a co-worker at my job.  

I don't usually wear this type of cap, because I like to make my own caps from different, fun fabrics. 

When I change out of my scrubs at work, I will sometimes throw my socks into one of these caps to take home, so when I did laundry this weekend I started to throw the caps away, and took notice of the papery type fabric and thought it might be fun to sew on! 

Here's a close up so you can see the thin, blue layer, then the small pieces I used to make the flowers. 

Beginners work, but it was fun to be creative with something you were just going to throw out, and I think those goofy looking surgical caps look so much better like this than on my head, don't you?  

Hope everyone has a great week, it's back to work for me tomorrow!

Becca