I belong to a group called Out of the Box in Ottawa. We were given a challenge to create something using 75% of the materials given us from the Canada beading Supply
I chose turquoise and yellow silk along with turquoise and aqua beads
I started by painting a piece of polyester cloth with aquarelle pencil crayons and after staring at the cloth for a long long time I found a dragon. Much to my dismay, as I was embroidering his scales and ruff, I realised that the crappy piece of fabric wasn't going to cut it in the finished product.
So I cut out the dragon...it wasn't pretty...all those tips and toe nails!!!
I have a wonderful scarf that I cut up to become the background for my dragon. I will NEVER make the mistake of starting something on a less then appropriate piece of cloth!