Spool Palette

Behold these lustrous hues of vintage mercerized cotton thread on wooden spools. Which is your favourite?

Green Thumb

I was inspired by Ron Isaacs' Sprout, and created this shadow box with linen, cardstock, and a vintage glove.

Captain America Shadow Box

 I made this shadow box for a special Captain America enthusiast in my life. 

 The image at the back is a collage I made of various images from the comics, and I painted the text in reverse on the glass, leaving the white center stripe clear.

This is one of the collage photos...this kid cracks me up.

Fabrications

Shadow boxes are great art and decor pieces. I love how I can gather various items that fit a theme and arrange them in a frame to create multidimensional, mixed media art. As you can see here, I used some spools of brightly colored thread, thimbles, pins, and a swatch of my Fabulous '50s fabric. I turned wire into clothes hangers and a spool into a dress form. I embroidered some tulle and crisscrossed thread around the objects. Anything goes!