Continued fun with paint

Tonight, I finally had a chance to start sewing on the fabric paintings that Geff did last week.  This is going to be fun.  And, addicting.

I first sandwiched the first two paintings.  We'd gotten more muslin last week for the backing, and I have plenty of left over batting around.  I used spray adhesive instead of pins, and since I was working on the new ironing board cover that Geff was nice enough to make happen, I put a plastic bag over the ironing board when using the spray adhesive. As an aside, I've needed a new ironing board cover for over a year, but I never remember when I'm in a store that actually sells them.  I'd gotten tired of having to watch so that I didn't iron on a waffle pattern onto the fabric like I did when I was heat setting this painting--which was when my ironing board cover still looked like the following:

I so appreciate having a new ironing board cover that I will make sure that I protect it!

In any case, once I finished the sandwiches and had given the adhesive a chance to set, I decided to start with the patterned painting.  The first decision was: which machine to use?  My every day HuskyStar machine?  Or my heavy duty Singer machine that I use for machine quilting?  I chose the Singer because it works better with more than one layer of fabric.

I finished about half of the patterned painting before jumping over to the scenery painting.

I'm still trying to get the amount of control that I want with the Singer, but I'm fairly happy with the progress so far.

Tomorrow, after I have had a chance to buy a few new needles, I will continue working on it--this is definitely fun!