Broken Wing
all things become broken, it's the process of putting them back together, reconstructing the deconstructed that will bring peace to the individual mending broken wings.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Friday, June 11, 2010
The white suit
The purple project
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Turtle soup anyone? (Revisited)
Here's the turtle that Prilla discovered on the grass by the moat, by the FSA auditorium.
These two were not too sure of this--neither was the turtle,
because after being sniffed and photographed, he decided he'd had enough of that....
and, he turned around and high tailed it back to the water.
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These two were not too sure of this--neither was the turtle,
because after being sniffed and photographed, he decided he'd had enough of that....
and, he turned around and high tailed it back to the water.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Hawai'ian flower blocks
I saw this in a Martha Stewart Magazine--however, I've changed it a bit.
She says to just use heavy paper and acrylic/fabric paint.
I used freezer paper, cut the flowers and then ironed it onto white fabric.
I then used alginate and mixed it with some dye and salt. I added enough water to make a thick, soupy mixture and sponged it onto the fabric inside the stencils. There was very little bleeding under the edges of the freezer paper. Next time, I will make the mixture a bit thicker, more like jelly than gravy.She says to just use heavy paper and acrylic/fabric paint.
I used freezer paper, cut the flowers and then ironed it onto white fabric.
I put it outside to dry faster, then brought it back in and ironed it to set the dye. Then I proceeded to rinse it out with a garden hose on a wire mesh (in this case a chick cage). I chose to do this, because I knew I didn't want the fabric touching itself when it was being rinsed.
I found out a few things that I will do next time:
1. Always rinse with the dye paste side down--the paste will rinse out easier, instead of sitting on top of the fabric and subsequently lightly dyeing the white surround.
2. Make sure that the whole piece to be rinsed is supported flat--unlike the bottom sample in the above picture. The dye will bleed down with gravity and water.
3. Make sure that your freezer paper is securely adheared.
Labels:
dye,
dyeing,
green quilt,
paint,
quilt,
quilting,
wholecloth
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