Yesterday saw me slaving over the ironing board............no not housework, I was heat setting the bark rubbings from Saturday!
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These rubbings above were made on voiles, a satiny fabric (the brown), and a lovely crinkly voiley fabric (technical terms!).
~I really liked the effect on the crinkly fabric which I had coloured with 2 colours of fabric crayon and thought it would sit well on my swap fabric so I cut it into 4 pieces and frayed the edges and machined it on with a variegated cotton.
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As you can see I had previously stamped the fabric with a text stamp.
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While we were at Belton on Saturday I picked up lots of Canada Goose feathers and made some more prints across the surface with these. I was a bit heavy handed in one or two places so the next challenge is to knock these back a bit.
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This is my practice piece and I've used a large butterfly stamp with gold paint on this and I like the effect so that may be the next step for my swap quilt. Coming further to the front of my mind is how to stitch the quilt. I enjoy hand sewing so maybe that is the road I will go down. Watch this space!
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It's my Mum's 84th birthday today so Happy Birthday Mum! See you soon!
11 comments:
You've created some very interesting surfaces Julie. Lovely!
These fabrics are stunning - I love the idea of incorporating stamping and printing onto fabric. You must be so pleased with the results you have achieved. Happy Birthday to your Mum - I hope she has a lovely day.
Thank you Heather, I do like working in layers and so far this is going ok. I spoke to my Mum this morning and she had had over 40 cards so far! Phew!
Your samples are absolutely gorgeous and to dye for!! I love them Julie
Nice to see a little bit of St. Ives back on your blog and happy birthday to your Mum xx
Happy Birthday To your Mum Julie
love the work you have done.
have a great week
Looks great Julie!
Your fabrics are lovely. Happy birthday to your mum.
How lovely Julie. I shared your blog with Serentex at the weekend. we were looking at the Little Gem quilts.
A very happy birthday to your Mum.
Gorgeous work, Julie! And a happy birthday to your Mum.
Thank You Feronia! You have a beautiful name!
Gorgeous fabrics Julie - I love the gold butterfly stamp. Hand sewing would be lovely on that surface.
Happy Birthday to your Mum!!
xxx
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