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Iris with Misty Fuse issued a challenge to the Austin Fiber Artist this piece is the result of that challenge.

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This piece along with 12 other artist will be featured at the Long Beach International Quilt Show Misty Fuse booth. We are thrilled.

Misty Fuse Challenge Fall 08’

Fun, Fall, and Folly were a few of the words included in the description of this challenge, we were allowed complete freedom from there except that the project must contain at least 50% surface coverage using Black Misty Fuse.

My favorite fall memory is the Indian Corn that my Mom would put out on the dining room table as part of her fall décor. I had my subject now how to use the Black Misty Fuse.

The corn with rows of color was a process of layering, starting with a gold silk foundation over laid with black Misty Fuse then layered with Toile. A light tack with the iron secured the layers. I left the Misty Fuse showing for texture.

Now with the base set I cut into a beautiful hand died scarf, my first died scarf so I was terrified. The colors in the scarf ran from a deep burgundy, orange, yellow to a green blue perfect for fall.

I cut into the scarf creating wavy lines to form each kernel of corn and its row. I left gaps between the rows so that the black Misty Fuse peeks through resembling the shadows created by the texture of the rows.

Organza was used as the corn husk and in some places as the silks between the rows.
All components of the corn were pressed to the Misty Fuse background.

Variegated thread was used to develop the individual kernels of corn the color of this thread change added to the variation of the Indian corn’s character.

The center corn is made with the same silk as the foundation. This is not your usual corn I found it while researching Indian Corn and fell in love with the textures of the corn husk.

Each husk leaf is cut out and stitched without fusible as I wanted the edges to ravel and have texture.

The base fabric was cut in a way that the black Misty Fuse was left as a border to create a shadow effect around the three corn sections.

The piece is secured to the green foundation fabric using smoke mono filament with special attention paid to creating depth to each of the pieces of corn.

I won’t go into how I made this piece the wrong size and what I went through trying to figure out how to fixed it, it seems that the creative process always leads me astray when trying to work within parameters.

The black Misty Fuse was a delight to work with and I look forward to incorporating it into many projects in the future.

Kharon Clark