Our little group has a small show at the Ceres Bakery in downtown Kalispell. I wrote a much longer post over at the Felting and Fiber Studio which will be up tomorrow. So go over there for more details.
Here’s my section of the wall. If you’re in the area, please go and check it out.
I’m still working on my machine stitch class, taking lots of photos, editing etc. I haven’t started the videos yet, so a long way to go. Have a good weekend!
I started working on my next online class, Free Motion Stitching on Felt. I looked through what I had for samples and started making a few more.
This is a sample that I had stenciled first with thickened dye and then free motion stitched.
You can see that I didn’t use a stabilizer on this to show how stitching can really distort felt. If you’re interested in taking the class, just let me know and I’ll add you to the email list to notify when the class is ready to go.
I prepared a bunch of screens for deconstructed screen printing. We had the printing session this afternoon and I’ll show you results later.
I did buy a new screen recently and it’s ready to get for dye.
I used a syringe to apply dye to this one. I let if dry and then added some background colors as well. Forgot to get a photo though.
Here’s another one where I used a syringe and a large dry brush to apply dye. Again, I let it dry and added more background color. No photo of this one either.
Here’s one where I used the dry brush only.
This one I used soy wax on a variety of circular objects.
I then added dye and let that dry.
This is a screen that Louise made. Cool, isn’t it? We had a fun session screen printing today. I have to wash out the fabric before I take photos. Have a good weekend and thanks for stopping by.
I finally got all the eco prints that I embellished scanned in to the computer. Although these look the same size, some are 5″ x 7″ and some are 4″ x 6″. The smaller ones are the ones that I have signed. I did frame the smaller ones but I couldn’t get good photos with the prints in the frames. So I took them all out and scanned them in to the computer.
I really like adding a bit of color to the natural leaf print colors. And the black outlines seems to make the leaves pop. Now to get some frames for the 5″ x 7″ ones. And I still have some even bigger ones that I haven’t embellished yet.
I was busy this weekend with University of Montana Grizzly Football and Homecoming. I am not an alumni but it is still a fun weekend. Didn’t get much fiber art done except for making the usual felted cat toys during the two hour car trip down to Missoula.
I have framed a bunch of my eco prints that I embellished. I took photos of all 6 but the only photo that turned out was this one. This is the purple carrots print, I added Tombow pen, watercolors and colored pencil. I will try again on the photos of the others and post them later.
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