Prepping for Sticky Fingers Demo
On Saturday, March 13th, I’ll be doing a demonstration of my “Sticky Fingers” technique, in conjunction with my guild’s local quilt show.
In preparation for that, I’ve been working on a sample background, which I’ll paint as part of the demo. The fabrics are mostly white-on-white, with a few black and white thrown in. Click to view larger.
When I paint the white-on-white fabrics, something very magical happens. The plastic-like design part resists the paint, so that only the background fabric picks up the color. This creates a wonderful, but subtle, patterned effect. Like the background of this piece:
Click the photo above, to see how really cool this is!
I call my glued collage class Sticky Fingers for good reason. After making the background above, the glue had dried to my fingers and I was ready to peel it off. After getting started, it occurred to me that you might like to see what this looks like, so I took a picture for you. In the photo below, I just started to peel dried glue away from the crease of my finger. It looks like peeling skin, huh? It comes off pretty easily.
I’m looking forward to my demo on Saturday. If you’re in the Melbourne, FL area, I hope I’ll see you there. More details here.
Ellen Lindner
P.S. I haven’t tried black and white fabrics as a glued background before. I’m hoping they’ll provide an interesting effect.
