Inspiration in the mail

Received this lovely bunch of embellisher experiments from my friend Cynthia yesterday in the mail, and immediately began playing with them. First, I layed the lengths of the wool mixtures along the piece of blue felt and used fusible interfacing to hold them in place so I could sew them down using automatic patterns on the Bernina.

These pix show the piece before and after stitching.
I'm reasonably pleased with the result except for the residue of the fusible interfacing, so I'm going to try soaking it in boiling water, and maybe even go at it with a nail brush.

Then I started to play with the silk fibres. They made me think of fan shapes and papyrus plants. I guess there must have been a residue of purple in my head from the January TIF challenge...
I tried variations of turquoise and purple ...

including turquoise net over top which I didn't like at all, eventually ending with the screamish turquoise metallic knocked back by the purple organza.
After machine stitching, it looked like this. I tried laying it on some dark green satin but didn't like that, so I decided on a pale sky blue satin for the backing.
But before I could sew the backing on, it told me it wanted some hand stitching, so I added this.
And here's the front of what will be a little purse...
And the back... I may still do a bit of kantha quilting in concentric lines around some shapes, not sure yet. The piece is simply folded in half along the bottom. Oooo - maybe I could even do a bead fringe? A beaded cord?
I may also do gussets in a treillage technique, using the purple and green threads which are too twisty for pulling through fabric in embroidery techniques but show up wonderfully in needlelace techniques...
I really admire Cynthia and these colours sort of match the challenge, so I guess this piece counts as a second TIF for January...Thanks Cyn - a bit of Cyn-chronicity there...