Garden Lady #8 - Fall Princess - Part Six

This is a continuation of 5 previous posts about the making of Garden Lady #8.

The next thing that I made was the fascinator for the top of her head.  I decided to name this quilt "Fall Princess", and thought about trying to make a tiara.  But I was already committed to making a fascinator and went with the idea of putting leaves and gems and twirly things on it.  I looked at a bunch of pictures (mostly of English royalty going to royal events) and was amazed at how large and ornate some of them are!  Well, in the end, I sketched up my idea.

Here is the base of the fascinator.  I decided to decorate it after the piece gets quilted.  

My friends suggested feathers and flowers and here are some ideas pinned in place.

I made a bouquet of fall flowers that were based on pictures of  flowers from my own garden.  The picture of flowers was traced onto freezer paper, then transferred to Steam-A-Seam and pressed to the back of different fabrics.  

These were cut out and embellished with Inktense pencils.  The original flowers made were all a bit too small, so I traced around a couple of the flowers and enlarged them at the same time.   Here are the small flowers:

Here is the bouquet pinned to the background with the large and small flowers.  It looked a lot better.

The next step was to make the stems.  I picked out a few different green fabrics, cut them on the bias to a shy 3/4" and turned in both edges.  I placed them underneath the flowers and through the hand.   

My quilting friends took a look and offered the opinion that the bouquet needed leaves and a few drooping flowers.  It looked so much better after that change!  I like to get advice from my friends and feel like my art pieces are enhanced with their eyes and ideas.  I hope you ask your friends for advice too.

I loosely stitched down the flowers and stems with invisible thread and intend to go back over it all with colored thread to add dimension. 

Oh, and after making all of the fall leaves, I piled them in a box so that I will just pick and place them after quilting.

I hope you like the progress so far!