Category: Capture & Create
A quilt Artist Journey in France.
Join me on a Quilters tour of France…. I can guarantee you will have a wonderful time… All the things I share on line will be actually "experienced" as we tour. I will instruct you:- on how to take photos to put into your quilts… How to look at things just a little differently… Where…
The hat lady – quilt illustration
OK, it's interesting, it's not predictable, it's not my favorite, but I've enjoyed the experiment. That's what creativity is about. In making this quilt I've discovered a technique I want to take further. But that technique will come later….. I decided to write directly on the quilt. It balances with the illustration. The dyed cheesecloth…
Preparing the fabric.
I purchased 5 yards of cheese cloth…. $1.99 metre. I cut strips…. 6" wide and dyed them with pigment ink. I used all purpose inks by Tsukineko. Even though I had a pinny on I managed to color my orange T-shirt. I splattered the ink all over my shoes and had to wash them…
A Fact so Charming
In going back into the blog archives…. this was the blog relating to the hat lady…. whoops nothing, so I will have to recall the mind image and write a story. Our second port of call was St Maartin. via pamhollanddesigns.typepad.com
Where to now.?
I felt I needed to create more samples of quilt illustration. So I finally went with that idea…. I dyed a piece of shadowplay fabric by Maywood (one of my favorite fabrics to use) I just used pigment ink on a brush and created movement with a darker blue. I didn't wet the fabric first…
The hat lady.
I've decided to add illustrations to most of my projects…… I think I can get a better feel for the image rathe than just stitching it. This lady was selling hats and bags on the beach in the Bahamas and I whipped out the camera and took the photo…. Now to quilt it…. I'm…
It's been a very long day…..!!!
Machine Illustrated project No 2. is finished.
Simple, but effective.
Illustration with the machine.
No it's not a computerised image…. it's freehand drawn with the sewing machine. How do I do it….. Shhhh my secret. for the time being. One of the things I love in being a teacher is the thrill of working out how to create something and then…. share it with students.I come out here into…