After painting fabric and seeing how much it stiffened the fabric, I knew I wanted to learn about painting with dyes instead. In anticipation I got a good tutorial book and asked for dyes for my just-around-the-corner birthday. Living in Florida, I KNEW I wanted to dye inside, something that very few people do. I…
You readers are really great! When I posted my quilt at this stage several of you had good suggestions about how I might improve it. The most common suggestion was to add some orange back in. Something I had considered but rejected. Another tip was to break up the white and to extend the “splashing”…
I got this far on my current quilt, before I knew it needed something more. Clearly, the white needed some texture. So, I decided to fling some paint onto it! I practiced first on a piece of muslin, then I just went for it. Amazingly, I did this without any fear! I was READY to break…
Well, after painting those (challenging) fabrics I had to figure out what to do with them. Since I wasn’t crazy about some of them, I knew I’d need to cut isolated portions and motifs for use. I had NO IDEA what my composition might look like, but I started cutting out sections and MINDLESSLY sticking…
Once I had my fabrics painted, it was time to select the colors I would use with them. Orange was a given since it was in one of the fabrics. So what about blue-green with orange? Although this is one of my favorite color combinations I immediately thought “no.” I guess because I’ve used it…
Like I said, painting fabric is more challenging than it looks. Especially if you use sort of thick paint to get hard edges, as I did. I wanted to create two coordinating fabrics: one with an allover pattern of sorts, and the other with large scale high contrast patterning. It was this second one that…
What an amazing coat Cindy Michaud made with an abundance of resist-dyed fabrics.
After working with some beautiful hand-painted fabrics recently, I decided to try my hand at creating some of my own. Although I had painted fabric before, I had never done so with a really specific purpose. This time I wanted to: – Paint at least 2 large pieces of fabric that would coordinate, – Paint…
All my trial and error paid off as I’m very happy with the resulting quilt, Jubilation.
The Thimblebuddies Double Reverse Applique students worked steadily on their apples and they nearly all finished them. As the afternoon continued the room got quite chilly. Most students were prepared for this, and one even brought a hat! Here’s Kathy with her finished apple. And Denise with hers, (to be trimmed later.) Marian made excellent…