I love playing with fabric and today I’ll show you how to make this bracelet. For this Triple Fabric Bracelet I used some of my sun printed fabric from this post. [stextbox id=”custom”] Triple Fabric Bracelet [print_link] 2″ x 23″ fabric strip 1″ x 23″ fusible stabilizer sewing machine thread and hand stitching thread sewing…
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Adding dimension with Jacquard Puff Additive
I’m a sucker for new or new-to-me products. This is one of those “I can’t believe this so I have to video it” type of tutorials. Anyway, here it is. Today I’m playing with Jacquard Puff Additive. It is amazing! To get started you need your piece of fabric. (It can also be used on…
Read MoreRedoing an old piece with Setacolor paints
I must confess that I made this a year ago. I took all of the process pictures, did the stitching, and then wasn’t sure I really liked it. It’s been hiding in my studio for quite some time so yesterday I thought I’d do something drastic – dye it. Well, I dug it out from…
Read MoreUsing the sun to print fabric
I’ve not done any sun printing since last summer. The sun was out Saturday so I played a bit. If you are new to my blog, I’ve written several posts on sun printing. I started out using craft paint in this post. I also tried Dye-na-Flow in this post. But my favorite paint for this…
Read MoreGelli Plate Printing: More kitchen tools
I’ve been busy playing with my gelli printing and guest blogging over at And Then We Set It On Fire. Check out my two posts through the links below. Here are the two completed projects from those two blog posts. This is a small wall hanging that I attached to a canvas painted gold. Check…
Read MoreMore marbling madness
Well, my three-week fabric marbling class is over. It’s been fun to work with that great group of gals. The last session we focused on traditional patterns using rakes, but really they could do whatever they wanted. I’ll show you a couple of my new pieces, but before that I wanted to show you what…
Read MoreHow to Dye Fabric with Ice Webinar
I’m so excited to be teaming up with Interweave to offer you a webinar on How to Dye Fabric with Ice: A fun & easy surface design technique on Tuesday, July 2 at 1 p.m. ET. A webinar is a live online seminar. You don’t need any fancy equipment to attend, just access to the…
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Monday was the second session of the fabric marbling class I’m teaching at the East Branch Library. For the first half of the class we used brushes which make smaller circles than the pipettes. For the second half of the session we used our skewers and made flowers. We also over marbled some of our…
Read MoreGetting ready for my marbling class
I’m teaching/facilitating a fabric marbling class at East Branch Library that starts today. I am SO excited to introduce ten talented creative women to marbling – one of my present addictions. If you’ve just dropped by, check out this post, this post and this one about my marbling. It’s been awhile since I’ve marbled so…
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