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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Experiments

One of my goals for this year is to try using some new materials and techniques that I can use in my art quilts. For this small experimental piece, I used a rubber stamp of a woman’s face and Fabrico Craft Ink to make the squares. I liked the way some imprints were very strong, and other seemed to be fading away. I sewed them down and frayed them around the edges. They looked too white against the background, so I blotted them with some diluted fabric paint and immediately ironed it dry. This created some interesting splotching, which you can see best on the middle face. Then I took some of the threads that came off my hand-dyed fabrics after washing and drying them, and couched them down with a free-motion quilting stitch.

2 comments:

  1. What a FABULOUS piece!
    YES, it is nice to just PLAY sometimes...GREAT JOB!!!

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  2. Wow...this piece looks so free and easy and enticing! It makes me want to go play RIGHT NOW. Fabulous.

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