Starting a New Piece - Chekamus River Canyon

When I start a new piece, I need to get everything sorted in my mind.
It takes a while to get everything in sinc.
This is what I've decided to attempt.

This photo was taken in BC last summer by my son, the climber. He spent 4 months in Squamish ..................  climbing.
This is the whole photo captured with his phone. I'll probably work to the whole piece and then crop at the end.

There's a lot going on here and it's taken me about a week to settle on this particular photo. Most of the time is taken thinking about method and fabrics and detail.
And size.
This seems to call for larger, perhaps larger than I've attempted before
It could be done as a split piece.
Now I've committed to this one ........ I definitely sleep better.

Naomi's Boat - Final......well my section anyway.

After it's all assembled, 7 more sections, I may add more coarse grass. Hopefully this will be ready to quilt before the New Year.

Naomi's Boat - Day 6

This almost done. What is left are the major coarse grasses.

I tucked in an extra 'maple leaf'. 😁

The brilliant green grass is actual some  'poly' paper that's used for flower pots and packing.
Easy to work with.
I may add more.
These photos are trimmed down to actual size, the strip I'm responsible for. 3' x 6".

Naomi's Boat

I worked about 6 -8 inches more in two steps. Each was, as before, in a fold of washable stabilizer on netting.

I also added some black and brown paint to the hull of the boat to bring it closer to a weathered abandoned craft.

Almost time to work the large grasses.

Naomi's boat - Day 4

We had a quick meeting yesterday just to see how were we're all progressing.
We exchanged a lot of ideas, borrowed some fabrics from each other and went home all ready to work.

I had progressed down to the start of the grassy area and stopped there. I hadn't decided how to handle it. There are only three of us that have a lot of grass so I exchanged a few ideas with them.

I knew I wanted to use thread but I didn't want to put down more netting. Instead I sandwiched some cut threads in a washable stabilizer sandwich.

That I placed under some hooped netting and stitched just enough for ease of handling and to anchor the threads.

After rinsing and drying it (with an iron..I'm an impatient sort) I placed it, netting side down. I glue tacked more branches and leaves over top. There was enough glue involved ( ironed hot to spread and set) to anchor the whole thing in place.

This needs about three times as much but I like the look and the ease of the method. It's really easy to tweak the colours of the grasses.