Painting Fabric

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Our surface design group met yesterday. We started with white fabric and used paint sticks over texture sheets to start. Then we added Dye-na-Flow paint.

 Here is Bunny adding some color. We kept adding layers.

 This is my paintbrush. I didn’t wash the paint out when I changed colors.

 We added some details with pens.

 We used some stamps for rubbing with paint sticks.

 Here is a little closer look.

This is the final outcome. It is drying and then I’m going to iron it. We are going to cut it into quarters and each use it to make something. I think I will use it to make some note cards. We had a great time. We hadn’t been able to meet all summer and I had really missed the group. Next month we’re doing nuno felting.

The stack is growing…

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I’ve been working all week, teasing out Merino fiber and then carding it. I still have at least 3 times more fiber than what’s shown left to card. Luckily, I get to keep the borrowed drum carder longer. Thanks Bunny! So I will keep carding a batt or two every day and hopefully will get all the wool carded before the end of the year.

Our surface design group is meeting this afternoon. We haven’t met since June due to scheduling difficulties so I’m excited to get back to it again. We are going to paint a 6 foot stretch of cotton fabric today. So more photos to come. Have a great Friday!

Felt United 2011

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 In celebration of Felt United, I hung the three felt bird houses in front of the house on my found metal sculpture.

Most likely though, the bird houses will hang in the back with the bird feeders so I can see them from the kitchen window. Hope you have a wonderful day and that if you like to felt, that you are able to celebrate Felt United.

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 I washed this fleece today. It’s Merino from a local sheep breeder.

 Here it is in the first wash. I then rinsed it two times.

 Then I drained out the excess water in the spin cycle of the washing machine and put it out to dry on my improvised drying rack. It was a beautiful day today so I got to do this all outside. Makes it nice as although hubby is supportive, he doesn’t care for Eau de Sheep Poop all over the house.

 In between washing fleece, I decided that I needed to make something for Felt United which I’ve always meant to do but never have. This year’s colors are from red to blue. So here is what I had in those colors.

So I made up three bird houses. Another thing on my list of to do’s. So here are the birdhouses, partly laid out. I didn’t get finished but will finish them up tomorrow. Then I’m going to hang them out in front of the house. So stay tuned and I’ll show the finished bird houses tomorrow.

New Journal

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 When the local Borders store went out of business, I bought several books for half price including Journal Spilling by Diana Trout. I also found a journal for 60% off. I glued two pages together to make the paper thicker and then added a coat of gesso. I think I’ll do a bunch of pages so that they are all ready to go.

 This is a page that I cut out of the journal to give a bit more room. I colored it with watercolor pencils and then wet it down just to get some color on the page. I will tear this up to use as collage bits to paste into the journal.

This was the sunrise by my house a couple of weeks ago. The air was smokey because of forest fires so it makes the sun really red when it rises. There isn’t much good about forest fires and smokiness in the air but it does make for spectacular sunrises and sunsets.