I’ve been wanting to make these for quite awhile – photo quilts. I’ve added photos to other pieces of art, but wanted to make a few that were larger and could be bound like regular quilts or even framed.
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I have spent the past 15 years designing fabric for my art using a wide range of surface design techniques. In 2011, I developed the popular ice dyeing method and later shared it through my online class Icy Delights, which I have since made freely available on my YouTube channel. In addition to dyeing, I explore sun printing, marbling, stamping, botanical printing, resists, discharge, and monoprinting to create unique fabric designs. My work has been featured in Quilting Arts, including the magazine’s first tutorial on ice dyeing in 2011.
Recently, I have combined her love of fabric art with my passion for genealogy, sharing this intersection in a Substack presentation titled Cloth Stories. I offer fabric surface design tutorials on my blog (lyndaheines.com) and share my genealogy and personal essay journey at Heines Sight (https://lyndaheines.substack.com/).
I live with my husband, Dave, and our two cats on Happy Acres, our little piece of paradise in Newburgh, Indiana.
Kohlrabi Leaf Printing, and Ice Dyeing
I’ve been just doing a bit of this and that lately including kohlrabi leaf printing and ice dyeing.
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Printing with Silk Flowers
I was in Joanns the other day and all of their silk flowers from spring and summer were on sale for 70% off. I’ve never printed with silk flowers so I thought this would be a great opportunity.
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Using a tote base to create a tote
This tutorial is how to make a tote bag using a plain tote bag as the base. Here is my finished tote. Before I start, I need to give credit Stitches by Julia. Here is the video of her project using the tote base.
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Little window cards
I was so excited to find these sweet window cards that I had to write a short post about them. What I like about them is that they are small, square, and are perfect to fit in 5 x 5 picture frames.
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Creating Together
With Dave’s renewed interest in woodworking, we decided to create together, marrying his wood skills with my fabric and finishing a project we started over seven years ago!
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Over ice dyeing
Back in December 2022 I purchased a couple Hanes womens Slub Jersey fashion hoodies on Amazon for ice dyeing. I finally got around to dyeing one of them last week. I’m using three out of the four muck dyes I bought back in 2018.
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Creating Fabulous Fabrics With Resists Presentation
Over the last two years I’ve been presenting my Creating Fabulous Fabrics with Resists slideshow to SAQA (Studio Art Quilt Associates) regions and other artist groups around the country via zoom. I presented it live and narrated the slideshow. I decided it was time to share it with all of you with the audio recorded.…
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40 Flags Finished
Yipee! I finished the 40 flags for the Toward 2050 project I talked about in this post. The deadline for these flags is December, but I decided to get this deadline off my plate. Here are all 40.
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