Help please!

I have now made 4 hangings for the ALQS4 swap would you believe. These are the two that I have just finished.

Yes, I know, I have come across this phrase from Spenser's The Faerie Queene ,and now I will use it to death. :)

Close up:

And the final one (which is my absolute favourite. The finish has turned out really well – a near perfect ‘rusty’ effect) :

Close ups:

And now this is where I need help. Which one to send? Can I ask you to vote for one? I will then put the one with the most votes in the ALQS4 swap.

Anyone leaving a number in the message box will have their name put in the ‘hat’ and if you would like one of the remaining three I will gladly send it to you.

Here then are the contenders. All on a Duck Cotton Canvas background, with batting & backing and machine stitched. Sizes are approximate as the edges all need turning and backing!

NUMBER 1

Dressmaking Pattern Tissue Paper, acrylic paints. Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold and Paynes Grey background. 60 x 60 cms.

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NUMBER 2

Pelmet Vilene lettering, Scrim. Transparent Red Iron Oxide and Paynes Grey background. 64 x 44 cms.

NUMBER 3

Foil, Fusible Webbing, Dressmaking Pattern Tissue Paper, Organza, rusted metal buttons. Transparent Red Iron Oxide background. 48 x 40 cms.

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NUMBER 4

Scrim, Xpandaprint. Iridescent Bronze acrylic. Quinacridone Nickel Azo Gold and Paynes Grey background. 52 x 46 cms.

Remember, they all look better in the flesh! Especially number 4, just can’t seem to get a true photograph of that one.

Look what I got in the post today:

The latest d4Daisy book. And I can tell you it is fabulous. Really lovely photography. The back says it’s a book for the coffee table and the workroom – and that is so true. Its another ‘must have’. If you order it from d4Daisy you stand a chance of getting a package of goodies from Maggie Grey.

I’m off to Kent tomorrow to give a ‘rusty’ workshop to Pat and her fellow EG members. What, nervous? Me? *LOL*

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