I spent the afternoon today moving forward with my new piece. I added two borders using my own hand dyed fabrics. I also did some additional coloring with prisma pencils to darken some of the original drawing I did.
I added a lot more color to the bodice and brought in more pink tones
Here is the piece with both borders attached
Next I used a beautiful yellow toned veriagated thread to free motion the open spaces around the figure and lines. I used a fine rayon black thread to stitch over my own black line drawing as well as the outer drawing lines of the hair, bird and headdress.
I changed to a Superior Rainbow thread to free motion on the outer green border.
Here is a closeup of the inner quilt and the two outer borders
It was tedious but worth the effort and time to outline her eyes, lips and nose in black thread too
The next step will be to add beads and perhaps Swarovski Crystals