This piece started out as a piece of collage paper.

Pieces of paper that were put together with glue to make one big piece of paper. Next I embroidered the face image.I put the paper onto a piece of felt and stitched onto it. It still needed something so I put a shear synthetic fabric over the image, did some free motion machine stitching over it and then shot it with a heat gun to melt and distress the synthetic fabric.

The close up is of the face after it had been stitched around and distressed.

I haven't finished with her yet. I am going to fuse tissue paper to some more felt to make a background fabric. I think that I will put some washes of paint on the background fabric then attache this first piece onto it.

I'll upload more images as this project progresses.