Well, this starts a new year for The Printed Fabric Bee Challenge. Jackie Lams was the October queen. Her theme was Science and she requested no pastels. Here is my final piece for her. I thought long and hard about this. What came to mind when I thought about science was DNA. After finding some…
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Printed Fabric Bee Giveaway #10
With this giveaway, we at the Printed Fabric Bee are completing our first year! I can’t believe it’s been a whole year. For me it has been a great experience to stretch myself – to force myself to use different colors and work with the monthly themes. As the months have passed I’ve seen my…
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Congratulations to Bethany Garner of Canada who is the lucky winner of the Inspirational Words set of fabric from The Printed Fabric Bee. Bethany said she has following our group since we started almost a year ago. I can hardly believe it’s been a year! Time sure does fly. Here are all but three of…
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Giveaway Closed – Bethany Garner of Canada was our winner It’s time for the Printed Fabric Bee Giveaway! I was so excited to be the Queen Bee this month. For my challenge I’ve asked for my piece to be 8 x 18 and it’s all about INSPIRATIONAL WORDS. For those of you who don’t know…
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It’s time for the Printed Fabric Bee Giveaway! Susan Purney Mark was the queen bee this past month and she chose Industrial as her topic. I really loved this challenge. Industrial to me means lots of buildings, so I cut a stencil that looked like steel beams. Then I used Jacquard Color Magnet with my…
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It’s time for the Printed Fabric Bee Giveaway! Lisa Chin was the queen bee this past month and she chose text as her topic. I really loved this challenge. I showed you my piece and how I made it in this post. Here is the 6 x 6 inch piece I made for the giveaway.…
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This month’s challenge for the Printed Fabric Bee was a 12 x 12 piece with text. Lisa Chin, the queen this month, also requested turquoise as her color of choice. I love text on fabric so I was really looking forward to playing. This was a fun and fast project once I decided what I…
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Well, it’s that time again – another Printed Fabric Bee Giveaway! Last month Jackie Lams chose Art Nouveau as the topic for The Printed Fabric Bee challenge. I absolutely love this and had so much fun creating my fabric. In yesterday’s post I showed you how I created this piece. Here again is the piece…
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Well, it’s that time again for another Printed Fabric Bee giveaway! This month Carol requested a 12 x 12 inch square of fabric of our interpretation of the colors and textures found in woodlands. When I think of woodlands, I think green. And since I’ve been a bit obsessed with palms since our last trip…
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