Roughened up

Shattered Dreams has been roughened up a bit.  I figure that if I'm trying to represent a stylized explosion, there wouldn't be a lot of straight lines and points.  The basic machine quilting was done first, mainly using FMQ'g. The next was modifying the straight lines with thread painting, although  I'm not sure you can call it "thread painting" when only one colour (navy) was used. I may have to do a little more FMQ'g within the navy shape.  This turned out to be more of a challenge of defining  positive and negative space than I had anticipated. Now it just has to be trimmed and bound.

Here is the full view and close-up.

I plan to link this with The Needle and Thread Network and Nina-Marie Sayre's Off the Wall Friday.