Pincushion - Women's Suffrage - Forced feeding- detail

A corner. I've been saving these odd shaped buttons for ages, and even though they were the wrong colour I decided to use them to illustrate the fact that these women did not fit the mould. I overpainted them with copper acrylic paint and shimmering gold interference paint.

I even overpainted the fibre edging and the stitching.... it's very freeing to dollop acrylic paint on top of painstakingly hand stitched pieces. It changes the nature of the whole piece, although it does take some courage

Done