Sunday, December 21, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Weaving Results
Sue painted the leaf on a used dryer sheet before weaving a shape that frames it. The finished weaving has been sewed onto the background before the entire piece was quilted.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Results of the Lutradur Lesson
Jamie used the Lutrdur as the background for the copy of the DeGrazia painting. The picture was colored with watercolor crayons.
Sue Anne colored the Lutradur and heated it into light curves to resemble rose petals and then put them together to form the flower.
This photo shows a closeup of Sue Anne's rose.
Sue used acrylic paints to color the Lutradur pears. Sue used a heat gun to give them a lacy appearance.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Results of the Sheer Sensation Lesson
For this quilt, Jamie used the contents of the kit. The background with the flowers is heavily quilted. This little quilt was then "buttoned" to the gridded background quilt after it was quilted.
Sue Anne placed the silk flowers on a background of In Good Company's handdyed fabrics. The quilt has a yarn binding.
Susan's autumn piece uses the fall colors of leaves which were placed underneath the organza. She "fused" the two colors of organza with a textile tool so there were no raw edges.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Results of the Bleach Discharging Kit
Jamie experimented with different bleach applications on black fabric and incorporated the "new" fabric into this quilt. The top and bottom borders were drawn with a foam brush dipped in bleach.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Results from Shaving Cream Marbling
Sue cut her marbled fabric into strips and pieced this small quilt.
Susan cut and pieced the background of marbled fabric and appliqued the pink flowers over the top.
Jamie pieced several marbled fabrics together with a commercial fabric to blend them all together. It was quilted with the seed stitch and embellished with beads.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Results of the Inkjet printing lesson
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Results of the melting lesson.
Susan fashioned a stained glass window by melting many layers of felt and organza and polyester and layering it over the green organza. The frame is made by fusing fancy fabrics to a timtex base and couching black perle cotton over the raw edges. The center is suspended within the frame with beads.
Sue pieced several pieces of hand-dyed fabric with a batik and overlayed it with a piece of organza. After quilting with many different motifs, she melted away the organza. In some areas she took out the organza from the background and in others, she removed the inside of the motif.
Sue stitched this piece with several decorative threads. She used an old chiffon scarf over the leaf motif, stitched a double line of stitching and melted the outside and the inside, leaving a thin line of blue inside the leaf.