Starch Crackle Results

Susan quilted her small piece using the lines and circles as guides. The circles were imprinted by laying a sink protector into the wet flour paste and removing before the paste dried. Once crackled and painted, the circles become apparent.

Sue Anne used a potato masher to create the multiple grids in her crackled fabric. She then incorporated the "new" fabric into her piece.

Jamie's gridded piece started with the elephant batik as the center. Her black and white crackled fabric is used as accompaniment.

In Jamie's second piece, the crackled fabric is pieced into the daikon radishes to create shadows along the sides of the vegetable.

Air Dry Clay Results

Sue used the air dry clay to form two embellishments. She used a mold to form a sun and a molding mat to impress a rectangle of spirals. Both are painted gold and antiqued. It is mounted onto a composition with a musical theme.


Sue Anne has made a collage from her collection of bright fabrics. The air dry clay is used in the hearts at the top of the piece. She imprinted a rolled sheet of clay with a stamp, cut them with a heart cutter, painted them with acrylic paint and "rub n'buffed" them with gold. They are glued to the piece.

Jamie created a Corn Queen and used the air dry clay for the face. A sun mold made the face and once it was dried, it was painted with yellow acrylic. A purple paintstik was brushed on and wiped off to highlight the features. It was glued on and surrounded by beads.

Fabric Texture Results

Sue used three different fabric textures from last month's Tart kit: The foreground was stitched to the diaper flannel and washed in hot water to shrink it to get the puckers in the field. The fence posts were cut from fabric that had been twisted and pleated and dried in a nylon stocking. And the mountains were "scrunched" onto fusible interfacing before being cut into their shapes.

Jamie's piece used the bubbling. She pushed cotton through the hardware cloth openings to create the blueberries in the basket in front of her granddaughter, Jillian, who absolutely loves blueberries! Jillian's photo has been printed on inkjet cotton after editing in Photoshop Elements.

MagicStamp Results

Susan used the rubber stripping to create her own stamp with a tree design. She added small circles for ornaments and several stars. The background behind the trees is beaded heavily.


Sue Anne has created a piece entitled "Instant Ancestors" - they're not hers! She has combined old napkins and the ink jet printed photos with her stamped fabric. She used an old piece of lace to imprint the design into the mold and then stamped with pink paint onto setacolored fabric.

Jamie used half of an apple to mold the stamp for the accents to this large apple applique which was painted in a class with Velda Newman.

Angelina Results

Sue Anne used Angelina fiber and film to make a variety of Christmas balls.

Jamie pressed loose Angelina fibers into a large shape and cut it into a circle which has been sewn to the background of this quilt.

Jamie combined Angelina fibers and film to create a color block in this quilt collage and the one following.

Weaving Results

Jamie wove this piece with a heavy jute macrame yarn, adding in fabric strips and yarns. The small weaving that is placed in the center of the piece is from another project. Strips were cut and woven together over fusible interfacing and then attached to the jute weave. The background is cotton which has been quilted.

This small piece was woven with fabric strips that were fused to the background and quilted.

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.

Results of the Lutradur Lesson

Susan used her printer to make an inkject image onto cotton of Rosie the Rivetor and printed the caption onto Lutradur. The narrow blue strips next to the picture are painted Lutradur.

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.