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Creating Together

By: Lynda June 30, 2024

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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!

Auditioning fabric pieces

By: Lynda February 5, 2023February 5, 2023

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Today I’m auditioning fabric pieces to make into a small art quilt for SAQA, the art organization I belong to. In December, I reorganized my studio again. In addition to separating fabric by color, I also made several boxes of pieces of fabric that might work alone.

Dye-Na-Flow: Sun or Not

By: Lynda August 13, 2021August 13, 2021

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I decided to do a little experiment. I wanted to know what the difference would be to allow the sun to dry the paint via sun printing, as opposed to just painting the fabric with Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow, and letting it sit and dry. You know I’m always up for experiments!

More Sun Printing 2021

By: Lynda July 30, 2021July 30, 2021

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It continues to be hot and humid, so I got out and did some more sun printing. In this post I wanted to show you that you don’t have to use leaves or other botanicals or even stencils to sun print. If you aren’t familiar with sun printing, check out this previous tutorial. I’m using…

Sun Printing: Dye-Na-Flow vs Setacolors

By: Lynda July 11, 2021

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I’ve been sun printing for years, and my go-to paint has always been Setacolors Lights. I decided last week to experiment again, and do a comparison with it and Jacquard Dye-Na-Flow. You can check out my other sun printing posts here.

ABC’s of Art Part 4

By: Lynda October 10, 2020October 10, 2020

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Now to finish the ABC’s of Art. U is for unfinished. This is a print from Pat Pauly’s Glorious Prints week-long class at QSDS last year. I really hated my quilting on it. I do have other prints in this series, but this was my favorite. I guess I need to print some more. V…

Solarfast Revisited

By: Lynda August 2, 2020August 12, 2020

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I can’t believe it’s been over four years since I played with Jacquard Solarfast. I thought it would be fun to revisit this product, and see what I thought about it now. The original tutorial can be found on this post.

Sun Printing 2020

By: Lynda July 31, 2020August 2, 2020

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Because it’s been hot and sunny, it was time to do some sun printing.

Sun Printing over “bad” prints

By: Lynda July 1, 2019July 15, 2019

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Sometimes printing projects just don’t work out the way you want them to. If you have some fabric around that you don’t like, try adding more layers. Today I’m talking about sun printing over “bad” prints.