First it was all about quilting and then dyeing and then I started making books and zentangling and drawing. Now I have given up on limiting myself and this is all about my creative journey. Hope you'll join me on my journey and invite me on yours!
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Zentangle Book 4, No 6
I learned a new tangle-Hurry. It is the one that looks like a woven seat for a chair.
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Zentangle Book 4 No 5
Back to the lacing. I seem to be stuck on the lacing. I think in this one I am trying to tie up the moon.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Play date with Beth
Saturday I had a wonderful play date with Beth. We were trying some variations of soy wax and thickened dyes. One of the great things of having a play date with Beth is that we start at the same place and end up in totally different locations. You'll need to go to Sew Sew Art to see Beth's material which is totally different from mine.
Our first experiment was to draw with the soy wax on our silk screens and then to use the thickened dyes with the screens. I drew a zentangly type thing with the wax. I chose to use a variety of color dyes and to screen them using a credit card. Here is the gorgeous fabric that was produced and three detail shots. The fabric is a little over a yard long and the entire width. I am definitely going to play with this technique some more.
The second experiment was stamping with soy wax and then applying the thickened dye with a credit card again. The experiment part of this trial is that I layered fabric. I got the idea from this post. I love the green bottom layer.
I am not as happy with the top layer. It isn't bad but it needs another layer.
The bottom piece I stamped with a large circle and then dyed with yellow and greens. Then, without waiting for the dye to dry, I layered another piece of fabric over the green dyed fabric. On the top fabric I stamped wax with a smaller circle and then dyed with blues and an orange on the edges to darken it. If you compare the two pieces, you will see that the colors, the wax, and the circle pattern transferred between the two.
Here are some detail pictures of both pieces. Both finished pieces have the two different sizes of circles.
I have shared this post on Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.
Our first experiment was to draw with the soy wax on our silk screens and then to use the thickened dyes with the screens. I drew a zentangly type thing with the wax. I chose to use a variety of color dyes and to screen them using a credit card. Here is the gorgeous fabric that was produced and three detail shots. The fabric is a little over a yard long and the entire width. I am definitely going to play with this technique some more.
The second experiment was stamping with soy wax and then applying the thickened dye with a credit card again. The experiment part of this trial is that I layered fabric. I got the idea from this post. I love the green bottom layer.
I am not as happy with the top layer. It isn't bad but it needs another layer.
The bottom piece I stamped with a large circle and then dyed with yellow and greens. Then, without waiting for the dye to dry, I layered another piece of fabric over the green dyed fabric. On the top fabric I stamped wax with a smaller circle and then dyed with blues and an orange on the edges to darken it. If you compare the two pieces, you will see that the colors, the wax, and the circle pattern transferred between the two.
Here are some detail pictures of both pieces. Both finished pieces have the two different sizes of circles.
I have shared this post on Nina-Marie's Off the Wall Friday.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Friday Favorites
What a great week! It has been spring break at the university. I still have to work but the campus is quiet. I did chose to take a couple of days off. I had planned to work hard on finishing a quilt and starting my next print seres but found myself just puttering around the house. I have enjoyed the quiet of being home alone. I did make a couple of books for the young women at church. I am going to be teaching them how to zentangle on April 24th and I thought it would be nice for them to have some books to keep their zentangles in. I only need to make 10 more.
I have also started making some 8x8 zentangles to offer for sell the for the Gardiner Art Walk that is coming up. I will have art quilts and prints to sell but I thought something less expensive would be good.
Friday Favorites
I was browsing and found this great tutorial by Terry Jarrad-Diamond. It is from 2010 so it is older and you may have seen it before. She explains how to think backwards to be able to piece complicated designs rather than to applique or fuse the design together. I love her designs and I prefer piecing so I was quite pleased to read her thought process as she does her stitching.
Heather is a new art quilter I have just started following. In this post she shows how she takes a so-so quilt and turns it into something extraordinary. Heather is like Terry in that she is a also a piece-maker. What an inspiration it is to me to see how she reconstructed the quilt. I have a pile of so-so quilt tops that need this attention!
Have a creative week!
I have also started making some 8x8 zentangles to offer for sell the for the Gardiner Art Walk that is coming up. I will have art quilts and prints to sell but I thought something less expensive would be good.
Friday Favorites
I was browsing and found this great tutorial by Terry Jarrad-Diamond. It is from 2010 so it is older and you may have seen it before. She explains how to think backwards to be able to piece complicated designs rather than to applique or fuse the design together. I love her designs and I prefer piecing so I was quite pleased to read her thought process as she does her stitching.
Heather is a new art quilter I have just started following. In this post she shows how she takes a so-so quilt and turns it into something extraordinary. Heather is like Terry in that she is a also a piece-maker. What an inspiration it is to me to see how she reconstructed the quilt. I have a pile of so-so quilt tops that need this attention!
Have a creative week!
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Book Spine Poetry
April is National Reading Month and the Nottage Library is celebrating with Book Spine Poetry.
What is Book
Spine Poetry you ask?
To make a book spine poem, you arrange a stack
of books so that the titles create a poem. Each title of a book becomes a
line in the poem. Your poem(s) can be enlightening, whimsical,
haiku, serious, macabre, or whatever you want!
Browse the library’s shelves or your own book
collection for interesting titles that seem to fit together and write them down.
Make a decision on 3-5 books, pull the books off the shelf and arrange
them in a stack from top to bottom (or side to side).
Take a picture of your book stack and send it
to andrea.thorne@maine.edu by April 8th. BE CREATIVE!!!! We will be posting photos on our bulletin boards for
everyone to see!
Here are my Book Spine Poetry
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