Results of Variations on Handmade Paper

Jamie's paper was incorporated into the larger piece as part of a collection of knives, forks, and spoons. Using a stamp, she created a reverse design of the image with the foam sheet. The cutlery was colored with water color pencils.

Susan created her paper on a flat surface using colored glue. Just before her final sheets of kleenex, she added three fresh leaves. Their ghostly image is enhanced with watercolor pencil rubbings. 

Sue Anne used an enlarged picture of a key charm to build her multi-layered mold. The glue was colored and the inside of the key was painted with gold acrylic paint. 

Results of Printing and Stitching

Sue Anne has used her printed cotton as the background for her collage about birds. The focal bird is a cocktail napkin that has been glued to muslin and attached to the background. The three dimensional flowers have a printed layer and are secured with a buttonhole covered bead. Washers have been covered with perle cotton in a buttonhole stitch and attached.

Jamie cut her printed and stitched cotton into sections and pieced them into this long and narrow piece. Several panels of color were sunprinted. The buttonhole stitches were applied with a variety of threads. Buttonhole covered washers and plastic rings were attached onto the surface after quilting.

Sue Anne had a few washers and rings left over from an evening of buttonholing. Surprisingly, they make a great center for a necklace.

Susan has combined her soy wax batik fabric with her buttonhole embroidery project. In the side panel are printed gold circles combined with lines of embroidery. The sprials in the soy wax batik have been enhanced with stitching and covered ring embellishments.

Results of Spraying Silk

Susan has combined several techniques into this one fabulous piece. Her silk has been pieced into the smaller quilted piece on the left which the beads run across. The other pieced fabric and the entire background are fabrics that she created using soy wax batik.



Jamie's piece was made using silk habotai that had been sprayed with several colors of green and blue. This piece was inspired by a trip to Tacoma and seeing many Dale Chihuly glass baskets.

Sue Anne created this piece by first masking the large circles with newspaper and spraying the silk with a very pale blue paint. She then masked the blue and sprayed the circles with yellow. The orange was sprayed on using a petal newspaper stencil. The last color - green for the leaves - was sprayed when all but the leaves were masked off. The piece is hand quilted with a running stitch and seed stitch.



Results of Thread Sketching

Sue took her inspiration from a knitting magazine cover with colorful dishcloths on the line. She used many values of thread to create the dimension in her piece.

Jamie sketched her four grandchildren with thread and mounted the piece in a black frame.

Sue Anne pieced her background before adding the colorful flowers. She used a free motion zig-zag primarily to fill in the flowers. Quilting around the flowers made them pop above the surface.

Results of Dyeing Cheesecloth

Jamie's Chinese Lantern is fused fabric with thread painting on a quilted background. The dyed cheesecloth which was pulled apart is applied to the surface with diluted Elmer's glue.

Sue Anne uses her dyed cheesecloth to form the skirt for this Victorian girl. The girl has been transfered to white fabric using TAP, cut out and fused with Misty Fuse to the collaged background.

Results of Transfer Art Paper

Sue Anne found a copyright free photo on the Internet, printed it onto the TAP and transferred it to a piece of rough canvas, which she then used as the centerpiece for her collaged paper fabric background. She created the background with old envelopes, fabric and other papers as well as stamps, stencils, lace and beads.

Jamie's postcard commemorates a trip to Maui. The map is printed onto cotton with the turtle transferred onto Lutradur and cut out. The small piece of mica overlays the island of Maui. All is adhered with Misty Fuse and tulle and machine quilted.

Sue's photo of herself has been transferred with TAP to a printed cotton and used as the focal point of her piece. Notice the wonderful bead work and driftwood in the right corner.

Results of the Soy Wax Batik Tart Kit

Sue's soy wax batik became the central motif of this piece. She started with white PFD on which she first stamped a circle in wax. The fabric was dyed with a light green and then overstamped with the leaf shape. She then overdyed the piece with blue dye. It is layered, quilted, and bound. The larger background was quilted with straight lines, meandering and the fern motif and bound. The batik layer is sewn to the top of the backgound which was colored with a Micron pen and embellished with beads.

Jamie's piece makes use of two batiked pieces: the large contrasting print on the right and the multicolored blue fabric behind the flower. The quilt top is pieced with additonal commericial fabrics and the Hawaiian hibiscus is needle-turned appliqued on the pre-quilted surface.

Sue Anne's piece started with the 1958 Bon Marche ad she found on the internet. She has used her batik fabric as the frame around the bathing suits and as the binding. The enlarged ad has been transfered using

Transfer Artists Paper and she has chosen complimentary fabrics and embellishments to support the year 1958.