Fiber Collage Lesson 1
May. 20th, 2010 02:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anne_dOne down...
Here be the quilt block for my fiber collage,
Front
and back.
Indonesian batiks, low-loft quilt batting, and craft thread, which is about the weight and texture of #5 perle cotton, but a lot cheaper, especially when you buy a whole assortment package with a 40%-off coupon. I can imagine using this stuff for all sorts of other things, like tassels and my Japanese stab-bound books, just for a start...
I also cut a square of the turquoise batik I want to use for my hand and fused interfacing onto the back. Tomorrow, maybe I can make a pattern and cut out that piece, then see what other embellishments I want to add. Drawing an outline of your hand, palm up, is harder than you'd think. But I wanted an open hand, and even if I faked it, I'd know and it would bother me. Yes, I really am that weird - I even sized the block up a little so the full-sized tracing of my hand would fit.
I should add that the quote I'm using is "I paint my own reality" (Frida Kahlo). I had another, but the colors wouldn't come together, so I went looking in my box of batiks and the sunflowers sort of leapt out at me, so there we are. I don't usually go for yellows and oranges, but it called to me. At the moment, I'm thinking fiesta colors - hot pink, turquoise, purple and maybe green if I can find the right one. I used those in the thread around the edges.
This was my last day of nobody else home for a long, long time. By the time Elder Daughter starts her summer class, Younger Daughter will be done with high school and needing to be taken to the Community College for orientations and practice riding public transit and so forth, so there will be somebody uderfoot until at least mid-August.
Elder Daughter and I will just have to come to an accomodation, that's all. Famous last words...
Here be the quilt block for my fiber collage,
Front
and back.
Indonesian batiks, low-loft quilt batting, and craft thread, which is about the weight and texture of #5 perle cotton, but a lot cheaper, especially when you buy a whole assortment package with a 40%-off coupon. I can imagine using this stuff for all sorts of other things, like tassels and my Japanese stab-bound books, just for a start...
I also cut a square of the turquoise batik I want to use for my hand and fused interfacing onto the back. Tomorrow, maybe I can make a pattern and cut out that piece, then see what other embellishments I want to add. Drawing an outline of your hand, palm up, is harder than you'd think. But I wanted an open hand, and even if I faked it, I'd know and it would bother me. Yes, I really am that weird - I even sized the block up a little so the full-sized tracing of my hand would fit.
I should add that the quote I'm using is "I paint my own reality" (Frida Kahlo). I had another, but the colors wouldn't come together, so I went looking in my box of batiks and the sunflowers sort of leapt out at me, so there we are. I don't usually go for yellows and oranges, but it called to me. At the moment, I'm thinking fiesta colors - hot pink, turquoise, purple and maybe green if I can find the right one. I used those in the thread around the edges.
This was my last day of nobody else home for a long, long time. By the time Elder Daughter starts her summer class, Younger Daughter will be done with high school and needing to be taken to the Community College for orientations and practice riding public transit and so forth, so there will be somebody uderfoot until at least mid-August.
Elder Daughter and I will just have to come to an accomodation, that's all. Famous last words...
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Date: 2010-05-21 02:31 am (UTC)I love batiks; I keep buying interesting lengths and then hoarding them, and there are some gorgeous ones out there.