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Kohlrabi Leaf Printing, and Ice Dyeing

By: Lynda August 5, 2024August 5, 2024

gardening, ice dyeing, irises, leaf printing, Photographygarden leaf printing, ice dyeing, leaf printing, Photography, printing, substack2 Comments

I’ve been just doing a bit of this and that lately including kohlrabi leaf printing and ice dyeing.

Three art quilts finished and more

By: Lynda February 22, 2024

art quilts, Fabric paint, Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow, leaf printingart quilts, garden leaf quilts, SAQA Spotlight Auction2 Comments

Since my last post I’ve finished three projects, and worked on a couple more.

Leaf Printing In Hawaii

By: Lynda February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Fabric paint, fabric printing, Hawaii, Jacquard Textile Paints, leaf printing, preserving, vacationingHawaii, Jacquard Textile Paints, leaf printing, preserving botanicals, vacation4 Comments

If you read the last post you know that I bought some paint while in Hawaii to play with while on vacation. I’ve always admired these Monarch Ferns. I love the little spots on the leaves. I asked several people what they were, and the response I got was that they were weeds that they…

New Projects for 2024

By: Lynda January 1, 2024January 1, 2024

art quilts, flags, garden flags, leaf printing, Sewing2024 projects, flags, garden art, projects, sewing4 Comments

Happy New Year! This year I decided to make a visual 2024 to-do list via my blog. A couple are due this month!

Readers Favorite Posts 2023

By: Lynda December 19, 2023

cheesecloth, Fabric Resists, leaf printing, resists, Shibori - Itajime, snippet roll, year end review2023 popular tutorials2 Comments

I love looking back to see what were the most favorite posts with readers over the past year. Here are the top five from 2023. Links to the posts are in the titles.

Slow Progress

By: Lynda October 31, 2023

fabric books, leaf printing, Sewingfabric book, fabric photo book, leaf printing, sewing4 Comments

I remember years ago when I first started my blog as Bloom Bake Create, I ran into one of my blog follower at our local JoAnns. I was surprised because I didn’t know her, and really had no idea I had people locally following my blog. She complimented me on my blog post and was…

Making New Leaf Prints

By: Lynda October 22, 2023

Fabric paint, fabric printing, leaf printing, Lutradur, preserving botanicals, spray paintsleaf printing, Lutradur, Marabu Fashion Spray paints, preserving botanicals2 Comments

We recently returned from a wonderful trip to Alabama. While there I picked up some leaves. I want to create something to remember this visit, so I made some new leaf prints. To start I needed to preserve the leaves. For information on preserving leaves and other botanicals check out this blog post.

Printing fabric with garden leaves

By: Lynda July 25, 2023July 25, 2023

fabric printing, gardening, leaf printingfabric printing, garden leaf printing, leaf printing4 Comments

I was cleaning up (well, attempting to clean up) my computer desktop and I found this file called garden leaves. I opened it up and it was all of the pictures for a post about using garden leaves to print on fabric instead of my regular tree or shrub leaves. I usually make this type…

Printing with daisies

By: Lynda July 19, 2023July 19, 2023

Fabric paint, fabric printing, gardening, leaf printingdaisy printing, gardening, leaf printing, printing8 Comments

After irises, my favorite of flowers are my daisies, specifically Becky Shasta daisies. They are so easy to grow. Since I’ve been on a printing spree, I thought it was time to see how they would print. To watch my video tutorial, scroll down.