Abstract Dragonfly

Using Photoshop, I enlarged a photograph of a dragonfly taken while camping in Pukeroa forest last year. I then cropped the picture just leaving the tail rudder.
After enlarging this to A4 size, printed and transferred the design to freezer paper.
Shiva paint stiks – green, blue, turquoise, copper, and white – coloured in the rudder onto yellow fabric. Once dried, free motion zigzag to fill in , and created a more rounded 3D effect. It looked like a green bunny!
Rummaged through my scraps and found some ugly fabric that needed to be used up, and cut 3 more rudder shapes. Also over laid the checked fabric with a plastic film found at Ajays Emporium, it totally changes the fabric – wow.
Somehow I managed to run out of double sided vilene, so just glue sticked them down onto the yellow fabric. Once dry, echo sewed with contrasting orange and green threads, down the rudder shape. They all looked like bunnies, is that abstract enough?
I just left the edges unfinished, outside my comfort zone a little, I really wanted to buttonhole them down!
Using a variegated crochet thread and Lana needles, top stitched the rudder shape diagonally across all 4 rudders, and then quilted the whole thing down with orange thread, echo quilting the diagonal and the other edge. After quilting, the raw edges lift, and add shadows unexpectedly to the quilt.
Decide not to center the piece but to cut it to size with more yellow back ground on the left, to bring out the yellow showing through on the painted rudder.
They still look like bunnies though! Albeit, upside down ones.