Results of the Paper Leather Tart Kit

Using paper leather for the skin on Jamie's Yam give this quilt a touch of realism. The paper was colored with the brown paint from the kit as well as chalks to give the orange highlights. The grungeboard is used underneath the paper for dimension and the ink is used as shadow. The quilt was quilted and mounted on a canvas covered with fabric.

Susan's sons are the Dryrock Gang! Their photo was transfered to osnaburg with transfer art paper. The paper leather is the piece of "hide" behind the poster. Susan used paint, Misty Fuse, and ink to create the leather. Painted grungeboard is the poster. Susan first painted the board black and then placed vinyl letters on the board before overpainting with an off-white paint. She then pulled the vinyl off leaving the black reverse stencil. These components were then attached to a pieced and quilted background. The paper leather is used to bind the quilt.

Sue Anne used her leather paper to make cowboy boots. The grunge board has been painted red to add the detail to the boots. The poster is a scaled down version of a poster that belongs to her mother. 



Results of Shrink Plastic

Susan added her shrink plastic embellishment to this piece that was made earlier. The colored buttons were printed onto inkjet plastic, cut out and shrunk. She had punched a hole for easy attachment with beads.

This Tic-Tac-Toe game is Jamie's piece in her alphabetical series for "X" - Xigua. Xigua is Chinese for watermelon. She has printed the watermelons on the inkjet plastic, using a full sheet. Once shrunk, they are attached to the red blocks. The blocks with the X's and O's are attached to the background quilt with velcro - the extra X is attached on the back.

Results of Positive/Negative Stenciling

Sue created her positive/negative stencil from actual oak leaves and they provide the focal point of this art piece. Her strip piecing, beading and machine quilting add a great deal of detail and interest.

Susan separated her positive/negative circles to form strips within a scrappy pieced unit. She has named this art piece "Hugs and Kisses" because of the combination of O's created with Paintstiks and X's created with the machine stitching.

Jamie designed a positive/negative stencil and painted a piece of fabric which was then cut up and used as the skin of the Winter Squash. Thread painting blends the prints and adds texture to the squash. Watercolor pencils were used to give dimension.

Sue Anne has created a beautiful fall scene and has used a number of techniques to color her fabrics. The blue background is her positive/negative stencil. In order to create a subtle background, several areas were left unpainted. The side border leaves have been printed and stamped. The dimensional leaves were cut from a commercial fabric, lined and sewn with invisible thread which puckered slightly when steamed.

Results of White on White

Jamie's piece using texture features her next vegetable in the alphabetical series - V for Vates Kale. The background muslin was machine quilted first. Embroidery stitches were added. The clamshell section was painted with acrylic paint. The photo of the Vates Kale was printed in black and white onto Extravorganza and mounted on a piece of fabric which was then placed on the background. The white edging was hand-crotcheted.

Susan's textured piece is simple in design. She machine quilted the background Osnaburg in straight lines. Placed over the top is a weaving which she made from all the threads and yarns in the kit.

Results of Sun Printing with a Grid

Sue Anne used her orange fencing sun print as the center of her composition. She then embellished the quilt with applique, an old house number,ovals cut from the Folger's metal foil seal, and beads.

Sue must have had the most fun of all! Her three distinctly different designs used a sun printed background that was integrated into each composition.

Jamie's gridded composition uses the ugli fruit as its center motif. The background blue was sun printed with a diagonally gridded screen with the center block cut away. Laying a foam sheet cut-out of the ugli in the center while the fabric dried left its sillouhette almost white. The fruit was then sponged with watercolor paints.

Susan experimented with sun printing organza. While there isn't a great deal of contrast left by the squares on the organza, there is enough to add interest and pattern to her composition. Her addition of resin beads and a layered focal point complement the sillouhetted squares.

Results of Fused Collage Kit

Susan has created an attic window variation for her composition of a mother and child. She has fused hand-dyed cheesecloth and the cut out picture to a hand-painted background. Individual flower motifs are added for interest. The one in the foreground has been fused to felted wool and placed over the tulle which covers the entire piece.

Sue used her picture in its entirety and placed it over her other elements: hand-painted background, hand-dyed cheesecloth, and Angelina. A layer of tulle covers the entire piece which is machine quilted and hand-embroidered. A silk flower and bead have been added as embellishments.

Sue Anne used her picture on the background in the upper right corner. To enlarge the image area, she fused snippets of fabric to match the picture and thread and silk ribbon to cover the bottom. An Angelina cloud masks the left hand seam. She then bordered the piece on two sides with printed fabric and beads.

Jamie used a piece of fabric that had been screen printed with turnips, leaves, and diagonal shapes as her background. The hand-dyed cheesecloth is laid over the Misty Fuse, with the other elements placed on top. The leaves were cut from several silk philodendron leaves and thread painted before Misty Fuse and black tulle were laid over the entire piece. Minimal machine quilting has been added.

Stacked Silk Results

Jamie used the four different silks in this piece call "Illuminated Snowpeas". The center is the painted raw silk which was stitched by machine and then shaded with watercolor crayons. The other silks form the patchwork around the perimeter of the piece.  A seed stitch has been added in the areas between the snowpeas to provide the quilting.

Sue Anne has used the raw silk piece for the background of her quilt. In order to subdue the bright colors of her original plaid, she over-dyed the silk with a light version of the orange Dyn-a-Flow. It is now a more muted and subtle background. The silk used for the side panel and the flower petals is an hand-dyed charmeuse silk.

Sue cut her stacked and painted silk into strips for the wall that her frog is climbing. The piece is embellished with beads.