My good friend Phyllis sun printed over
a blue and grey lovely printed top which had silver and gold
cranes images. You can see a little bit of one of the crane images
poking through on the right top corner on the photo below.
Been having fun creating sun prints in the studio barn with my friend Phyllis.
It's been very hot in Paso Robles lately, which is perfect for making sun prints on fabric.
I'll post again soon to show how the fabrics turned out.
Just finished a new quilt that I started years ago in a Rosemary Eichorn Class offered by my Almond Country Quilt Guild. The class was on fabric collage and using a multitude of ways to alter your fabric. I'm talking melting it, painting it, tearing it, gluing it, you name it!
It's hard to tell in the photo that the clouds are slightly three dimensional, as are the silk roses appliquéd to the painted gold felt. We used a heat gun to distress the acrylic felt and the painted it.
Recently I had some friends from my Cutting Edge Group come over to do some parfait ice dyeing, which is a process where you stack one piece of fabric over another adding dye and ice to each one and squish them into a container. As the ice melts the fabric get bits of dye from the pieces above and below them.
I used two kinds of fabric, a bright, white Kona cloth and a light weight, linen-like, mystery fabric that I found in a drawer.
Below are pictures of each, with the Kona cloth one on top.
In our Cutting Edge Fiber Art Group we set up a Portrait Challenge. For my project, I chose to revisit a portrait of St. Joan of Arc, which I started some years ago in a class taught by Rosemary Eichorn. It's been at least ten years ago that I took the class, if not fifteen. It was a fabulous class where she stressed the importance of playing while creating. She called it PLORK, which is a combination of Play and Work. Play being abstract without a goal and work being more goal oriented, serious and honorable. We used a wide variety of materials. We painted fabric, felt, stabilizers, etc. We heated and melted materials to create more interesting fabrics for our collage.
Below are two photos of my work in progress. The first one was taken at the end of the day of the workshop. The second one was taken a couple of days ago as I continue to make some changes here and there, with more to come.
