Tag: Dyeing Fabric
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“Message From the Sun” Quilt
The theme challenge for the Portland Modern Quilt Guild’s Improv Group in August was sun/sunshine. I wasn’t really sure where this was headed but wanted to work in surface design and Tyvek. The pile of materials, pictured above, shows the materials with which I started. After sewing and melting and sewing, I created a Message…
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Improvisational Surface Design
Very rarely do I abandon other projects to work on something new. Recently, an opportunity presented itself that caused me to work on something unexpected. This recently happened because of a challenge posed by the Improv group of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild. The July prompt was ‘Surface Design’. My piece incorporated both improvisational quilting…
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Painting on Fabric Using Pigment Powder
Lately, I have been working with fabric. It has provided a great outlet for me to play with my stash by dyeing, painting, quilting, incorporating surface design techniques, and anything else which I can think up. Today, I decided to try using Colourarte’s Primary Elements pigment powder to paint on some fabric that I had…
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Creative Roundup – Lots of Photographs
For lack of a better post title, the following is some of what I have been doing the last few months. Dyeing scarves Chenilled a puppy quilt from hand dyed flannel The puppy quilt was for the little fellow pictured below. We got him from a rescue and he turned out to be sick. I…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 